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Risking My Life For a Kiss
Actor John Kani took the risky decision to play Othello in apartheid South Africa
When John Kani took to the stage to play Othello in apartheid South Africa,1987 romantic relationships between black and white people were just recently legal, and still deeply controversial. So when he was asked to kiss a white woman on stage, he was taking a very serious risk. Now in his 70s, he's been telling Outlook amazing story of that production, and how he came to love the poetry of Shakespeare as a boy growing up in the Eastern Cape.
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