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From 16 to 26 March, actor Michael Richard takes to stage as Jack Morris, a cantankerous old actor who hopes to overcome severe liver cancer to get to Cape Town to play King Lear.
How do you put a nation's history on stage? In this remarkable play, John Kani - as formidable a writer as he is an actor - does it through a confrontation between two men who represent polarised aspects of the South African experience. Marking 25 years since the country's first post-apartheid democratic elections, the play becomes an exploration of race, class, politics, theatre, and the potentially unifying power of Shakespeare.
Michael Richard plays Jack Morris, a cantankerous old actor who hopes to overcome severe liver cancer to get to Cape Town to play King Lear. Kani himself is Lunga Kunene, a retired carer assigned by an agency to tend this querulous thespian.