South Africa: Pieces of Me is food for the soul in an intimate ritual of storytelling

There’s a kind of light that radiates out of people like Bo Petersen. We humans like to say they glow or shine or give off “an energy”. Whatever it is, you can’t help but feel that spark, that fire within them that somehow lights up a room, makes you want to get closer, to listen more carefully to what they have to say. 

Certainly, when you watch Bo Petersen on stage in her new autobiographical one-woman show, Pieces of Me, there’s a sense that this actress is speaking…