Winson, from the Cape Town Shakespeare Soceity, and I picked him up from his home in Sommerset West. As I entered into his sitting room, I noticed right away a photograph that had pride of place in this room was of him diving off of a ship into the Arctic Ocean. This photograph was taken last month! 85 and still going strong. An amazing person and a most gentle of souls.
'Matthew Hahn’s The Robben Island Shakespeare is indeed a manual for both the young and old in South Africa and the world, to help us charter the difficult journey of life and the survival of the human spirit, UBUNTU, against all odds.' - Tony Award Winning Actor and South African Cultural Activist John Kani, in his introduction to The Robben Island Shakespeare.
Wednesday 27 August 2014
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - meeting another of those most gentle of men, Eddie Daniels
What an honour to have met another one of Sonny's 'Bible's signatories, Eddie 'Matthew' Daniels ['Matthew', he tells me, was his nom de guerre in the Liberation Movement]. In 2010, Masie & Tod Higgenson interviewed him whilst I was in Johannesburg working with actors at the Market Theatre Labortory.