Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
playwrightlatest news & developments
National treasure: John Kani has always believed in approaching the artistic process as an honest journey, and with an open heart. (Paul Botes/M&G)
ACTING

Q&A Sessions: From sangomas to the world’s biggest stages, John Kani has seen it all

His father took him to isangoma when he wanted to be an actor. Today Dr John Kani is revered the world over. He tells Athandiwe Saba about his passions

  • Athandiwe Saba
7 min read
Stephen Gray edited a series of South African works for Penguin, bringing back into print several almost forgotten classics. (Paul Botes)
ATHOL FUGARD

Obituary: Literary allrounder Stephen Gray was a scholar, critic, novelist and poet

Stephen Gray made an immense, long contribution to the South African literary landscape across many genres, but it was poetry that he described as ‘the main activity of my life’

  • Shaun De Waal
4 min read
Playwright and actress Danai Gurira says she wrote because she wasn’t finding stories that she wanted to perform
CHIPAWO

A ‘necessity being the mother of invention’ type thing

Danai Gurira on theatre and representation

  • Danai Gurira
1 min read
PLAYWRIGHT

School play exchange lets South African pupils collaborate with world-renowned writer

Carmen Rivera helps two schools perform each others’ plays.

  • Prega Govender
5 min read
“The industry has a terrible habit of ignoring and marginalising talented theatre-makers
FLEUR DU CAP THEATRE AWARDS

Louis Viljoen: Theatre’s unruly wunderkind

Playwright Louis Viljoen fearlessly tackles a wide range of subjects in his uncompromising and challenging dramas, like the upcoming ‘The Kingmakers’.

  • Hilary Prendini Toffoli
5 min read
Zombie from Zimbabwe: Danai Gurira as Michonne in The Walking Dead.
ACTRESS DANAI GURIRA

The Walking Dead’s ?Danai Gurira has a zest for theatre

One of Zimbabwe’s brightest stars — ?Danai Gurira — talks of the appeal of complex and powerful women in her new play, The Convert.

  • Liam Brickhill
4 min read