Actor, director and playwright John Kani shows no signs of slowing down as he leaps into multiple projectsenergy does not waver – he’s finishing up a Walt Disney movie, hitting the red carpet with The Black Panther team and rehearsing his new play.which will premiere at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on July 19.
He is in Cape Town at the moment, learning lines and rehearsing for the latest play from his own pen, Kunene and the King, in which he co-stars with Sir Antony Sher. Kunene and the King will open next month in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK.“So now I am almost overwhelmed by the expectation!” said a laughing Kani this week.It revolves around two men from vastly different backgrounds who are flung together by chance.
“I wove in the story of King Lear as Lunga helps Jack learn his lines. But Lunga has an African point of view. I mean, when Jack refers to Edmund [a character in King Lear] as an illegitimate son, Lunga goes: ‘Excuse me, what do you mean illegitimate?’ Because in the African language, there is no such thing as illegitimate; that word does not exist. Your son is your son, your daughter is your daughter. So the two men argue about little things like that.
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