Sizwe Banzi is Dead

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**** 4 Extra celebrates the 70th anniversary of London's Royal Court Theatre with a selection of its ground-breaking dramas This stark, funny and moving play, is set in 1970s South Africa at the height of apartheid. Devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. When a man arrives in a photographic studio to have his image taken for his passbook, the characters discover what it means to lose your passbook, in a country where your passbook is your identity. The chilling reasons of how and why the man needed a new photograph are revealed. A thought-provoking, captivating drama about oppression, racism and identity. Recorded in front of an audience at Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome. With a specially recorded introduction by Athol Fugard in South Africa. Styles ..... Tonderai Monyevu Man/Robert Zwelinzima/Sizwe Banzi .....Sibusiso Mamba Buntu ..... Adetomiwa Edun Music composed and played by Xhosa Cole and Azizi Cole Production Co-ordinators - Vicky Moseley and Pippa Day Sound team - Simon Highfield, Sharon Hughes and John Benton Director: Pauline Harris First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in October 2022.