The writer exposed the realities of apartheid in plays such as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold’…and the Boys”, and refused to play for segregated audiences.
Nine finalists have been announced for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious English-language theatre prize for women and non-binary writers.
Jennifer Tang’s folio-feminising London production at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse proves that bathos conquers all, even if it’s by accident. She talks to Euronews Culture about the play and her view on the survival of theatre.