'Sizwe' is the beginning of protest theatre; 'Nothing But The Truth' is post-apartheid South Africa. — John Kani Copy Share Image
Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line. — John Kani Copy Share Image
Very rarely in the life of an actor and a performer do you do something you truly believe in, do you do… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and… — John Kani Copy Share Image
Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in… — John Kani Copy Share Image
In 1973, 'Sizwe Banzi is Dead' and 'The Island,' which I co-wrote with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, transferred from The Royal… — John Kani Copy Share Image
Protest theater has a place again. It's not against whites or apartheid. It is against injustice and anything that fails our people. — John Kani Copy Share Image
Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were… — John Kani Copy Share Image
If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre.… — John Kani Copy Share Image
Before 1994, many South Africans used theater as a voice of protest against the government. But with the end of apartheid, like… — John Kani Copy Share Image
When I tried to do 'Waiting for Godot, it was such a controversy. I was tired of political theatre. All I wanted… — John Kani Copy Share Image
All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression. — John Kani Copy Share
I still remember the moment when my teacher, Mr. Budaza, walked into class and said, 'Today we are going to study 'Julius Caesar,' one… — John Kani Copy Share
I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and major movies,… — John Kani Copy Share
Working with my friend Sir Antony Sher is truly one of the highlights of my career as an artist. — John Kani Copy Share
In Australia, I almost became a counsellor. At the end of each performance there would be a queue of sobbing people backstage. They all… — John Kani Copy Share
What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote?… — John Kani Copy Share
Every time there is a movie that tells a South African story, it is done by someone who must be taught the right way… — John Kani Copy Share
In South Africa, it is different. When you are born not even your father knows what is going to happen in your life. — John Kani Copy Share
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English text how… — John Kani Copy Share
We are sort of not at the level of entertainment that the Western world is. Everything we see on the play in the screen,… — John Kani Copy Share
We haven't got those dreams: 'I wish to become doctor or a lawyer.' Black people in South Africa have been barred in doing anything… — John Kani Copy Share
