Sizwe Banzi Is Dead [Drama On 3]

Sizwe Banzi is Dead - a devised play by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.

This stark, funny and moving play, is set in 1970s South Africa at the height of apartheid.

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 as part of the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival. 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

Producer/Director Pauline Harris

Please note that this programme contains strong and discriminatory language.

Drama on BBC Radio 3, co-devised by South Africa's legendary playwright, Athol Fugard

Drama on BBC Radio 3, co-devised by South Africa's legendary playwright, Athol Fugard.