Apartheid Quote by John Kani

Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that…

— John Kani

If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre. But the…

— John Kani

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid…

— Saul Williams

Other theaters exist here solely to entertain the white audience and keep South Africa on a par with what's going on in the West…

— John Kani

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to…

— Arthur Miller

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the…

— Paula Vogel

With theatre, we are always trying to engage in a conversation with people and to bring people into that conversation, but I was disappointed…

— Rachel House

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

— Eve Ensler

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our…

— Edward Bond

When the situation politically became intolerable within South Africa, we used the arts as a weapon for change.

— John Kani

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

— Athol Fugard

When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was…

— St. Lucia