John Kani returns to ‘”Master Harold”… and the Boys’ at the Geffen
John Kani was on his way to joining the Umkhonto We Sizwe paramilitary wing in 1965 when he took a detour to a Serpent Players drama group rehearsal in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. There, Kaniβs friend Fats Bookholane introduced him to a company member heβd mistaken for a custodian. βJohn, this is Athol,β Bookholane said,…