{"id":8547,"date":"2019-05-09T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:40:16","slug":"kunene-and-the-king-must-close-25-may-the-fugard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/05\/09\/kunene-and-the-king-must-close-25-may-the-fugard\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunene And The King &#8211; Must Close 25 May &#8211; The Fugard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/logo-fugard-rsc.jpg?resize=330%2C121\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/logo-fugard-rsc.jpg?w=330&amp;ssl=1 330w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/logo-fugard-rsc.jpg?resize=300%2C110&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Now playing. Must close 25 May.<br \/>Great seats still available for the last two Sundays at 3pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kunene-may-header.jpg?resize=450%2C570\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kunene-may-header.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/kunene-may-header.jpg?resize=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Abraham presents a Royal Shakespeare Company and Fugard Theatre production of John Kani\u2019s new play, now playing at The Fugard Theatre, hot off its world premiere at The Royal Shakespeare Company\u2019s Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. The production is written by John Kani and is directed by Janice Honeyman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Kani stars as Lunga, a headstrong male nurse contracted to care for cantankerous actor Jack (Antony Sher) as he copes with terminal liver cancer. This moving and funny two-hander provides a fitting tribute to mark the 25th anniversary of South Africa\u2019s first democratic elections after apartheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends of the Fugard benefit from great discounts on certain performances and seats when booking through the box office on 021 461 4554.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read More (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thefugard.com\/whats-on\/currently-on\/item\/kunene-and-the-king\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thefugard.onetix.com\/ticket\/show\/kunene-and-the-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Book Now (opens in a new tab)\">Book Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now playing. Must close 25 May.Great seats still available for the last two Sundays at 3pm. Eric Abraham presents a Royal Shakespeare Company and Fugard Theatre production of John Kani\u2019s new play, now playing at The Fugard Theatre, hot off its world premiere at The Royal Shakespeare Company\u2019s Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/05\/09\/kunene-and-the-king-must-close-25-may-the-fugard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kunene And The King &#8211; Must Close 25 May &#8211; The Fugard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-the-fugard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}