Editor's note: As a member of The Serpent Players repertory theater group in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, John Kani ...

It starred black actor, John Kani, who kissed a white actress. Show more In September 1987, Othello was staged at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg during the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Bonsile John Kani (born 1943) is a South African actor, director and playwright. He was born in New Brighton, South Africa. Kani joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first ...

Mufasa’s coming of age is framed by Rafiki (John Kani), the mystical mandrill, imparting the tale to Kiara (Blue Ivy Carter), the cub of Simba (Donald Glover) and Nala (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter).

The event will feature actors John Kani and Janet Suzman “with reflections, live performance extracts and recorded excerpts from Athol Fugard himself”. The theatre, which presented the ...

But the Shakespeare play was controversial, especially the scene where the black actor, John Kani, kissed the white actress playing his wife. The play was directed by South African born actress ...