Antony Sher is one of Britain’s most brilliant actors and authors. Since moving to England in 1968 from his native Cape Town, he has excelled in a huge range of roles in his 30-year career, and was knighted in 2000. His latest work is a masterly monologue Primo, Sher’s adaptation of If This is a Man (1947) by the great Holocaust chronicler Primo Levi. Antony Sher lived for many years as an outsider ‘gay, white, Jewish South African’ as he came to term...