Desert Rose Deserter
“My biggest challenge from the outset has been how to make the audience not hate Freddy,” says Rohan Dickson, writer-creator of new local drama series Desert Rose, season 1 airs Thursdays on M-Net (*101) at 20:30. “Many people in South Africa know what it is to have a father who abandoned them. It’s hard to get the audience to empathise, or at least not hate this character throughout. The characters all fight for Freddy (and ask), ‘When is he coming back? Is he going to help us?’ But if the audience hates him, if that is the general trajectory the whole way through? It’s not going to work. That was the hardest part.”
Want to know how Rohan wrote himself out of that corner? Read on as he talks about
