Award winning Kani, takes lead role in Missing
Don't miss the John Kan's performance in Missing, a performance in the New Stages Festival at the Durban Playhouse.
THE next show in the Playhouse Company's annual New Stages Festival is Missing, which takes place at the Drama Theatre from 12 to 15 May for schools and 15 to 17 May for the public.
This new South African production sees Tony-award-winning actor and writer, Dr John Kani at his very best. It's his first full-length play since his Nothing But The Truth in 2002, which received numerous accolades locally and abroad.
In Missing, Kani teams up with theatre bluebloods, Janice Honeyman (director) and Mannie Manim (lighting designer) to bring to life this intriguing love story cum political thriller.
Missing tells the story of an exiled comrade who returns to South Africa with his Swedish wife and engaged daughter. Expecting to take up an illustrious new career in the newly democratic government, he finds an unexpected rival in one of his closest ex-comrades.
The play raises several important issues faced by those who went into exile and who hoped to be recalled by the ANC to join the government and take up a new life in a now democratic South Africa.
The cast features Kani as Robert Khalipa, Susan Danford as his Swedish wife, Anna Ohlson, and newcomer Buhle Ngaba as their daughter, Ayanda, a medical student. Apollo Ntshoko plays Peter Tshabalala, a young comrade and Robert's assistant in the ANC office in Stockholm.
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