Telford Vice spoke to the three theatrical legends — John Kani, Antony Sher and Janice Honeyman — behind a new play, 'Kunene and the King', which reveals a lot about post-apartheid SA.
Kani is 75, which he likes to point out is far from old, and is incapable of sitting still."If I don't know what's following when I finish something I develop a rash and a restlessness, to the point that my family says, 'Go do something, even if it's an advert. Go! We can't deal with you.'"is keeping him out of his family's hair. The plot pits two South African characters of a certain age against each other - prejudices, personal experiences, and all.
Being back in SA is,"on an emotional and spiritual level, very powerful", Sher said, his delivery as slow as the traffic oozing from Camps Bay on a Sunday afternoon. Herding personalities as contrasting as Kani and Sher on the same stage is a challenge, even if they are firm friends. But Honeyman, a Capetonian transplanted to Joburg, has directed each of them five times.in 2008, when Sher played Prospero and Kani Caliban in a production that went from the Baxter in Cape Town to Stratford and five other venues in England.
For Kani, history and culture are always about the individual."I see someone standing at a bus stop, in the street or in front of their house, and I want to do a brain operation and listen to their inner thoughts unadulterated by the environment they're in.
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