FROM MISS JULIE TO MISS DAISY
Racial theme reunites John Kani and Sandra Prinsloo
The two veteran and beloved actors appear together again in an Afrikaans adaptation of Driving Miss Daisy, writes Eugene Yiga
When Sandra Prinsloo and John Kani performed in a 1985 production of Miss Julie, their interracial onstage kiss caused an audience walkout. "It all seems unreal now but at that time it was very real," she says. "I was quite shocked by the display of vehemence and hatred that was the reaction to a kiss across the ‘colour bar’ but I never doubted the fact that we were right in doing Miss Julie as it should be done in that time." Although she has worked on stage and in television and film, Prinsloo has always considered theatre her first love. She likes the immediacy and the interaction with the audience. "I think the idea of creating a magical yet unreal world wherein people could see themselves reflected drew me in when I first started off, rather unwillingly, as an actress," she says. "When I was 20, I started working for [the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal] and after my second production I fell deeply in love with theatre and decided that there was nothing else I wanted t...
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