The Bullet in the Pawpaw: Theatre and AIDS in South Africa

Kim, a naïve, poorly educated English girl, is enjoying the delights of London in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ when a chance encounter takes her on a journey to South Africa. Travelling as an actor with a touring Shakespeare company, Kim is irrevocably drawn to the ‘beloved country’, but her abhorrence of the oppressive system of apartheid forces her to return home. This experience changes the direction of her life, and now, having achieved a longed-for education, she is on a mission: to stop the...