Edinburgh highlight: The South African Season at the Assembly

17th August 2012

 

INTERVIEW: YAEL FARBER and BO PETERSEN

The adapter and director of Mies Julie, based on Strindberg’s play, and the actor in Athol Fugard’s Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act talk to Philip Fisher about the critically acclaimed South African Season at the Assembly. Recorded: 14 August 2012.

South Africa is complex, nuanced, and not a society to be pitied, but it is one facing challenges and moving forward with extraordinary grace and without exploding into some kind of catastrophe.