‘Not for themselves, but for the nation’

Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona’s ‘The Island’, a workshop play based on Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’, was first performed in South Africa in 1973. Speaking of its 1999 revival with the original performers, Peter Brook said: “What is extraordinary... is that the performers are not playing for t...

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review

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