Sizwe Banzi is Dead
From: Monday, 19th March 2007
To: Wednesday, 4 April 2007
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Synopsis
Memorable, moving, funny and deeply human, award-winning Sizwe Banzi is Dead is, quite simply, one of the classic plays of the 20th century. In apartheid-era South Africa migrant worker Sizwe Banzi is getting desperate. To survive and to support his wife and family he needs a job. But to get a job he needs a valid pass. And that's when his problems really start. Because the only way he can get a pass is to be officially 'dead'. Voted 'Best Play' in the London Theatre Critics Award and nominated for three Tony Awards during a triumphant Broadway run, this theatrical tour de force played in South Africa's townships before touring the world to massive critical and popular acclaim.
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22 March 2007
With this London opening on the same day that rehearsals for the The Lion King began in South Africa, it’s very much to the point to be reminded of how far the theatre – and that country – has had to travel since the dire, dark days of apartheid. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead was the outstanding play of the early 1970s, signalling resistance in the townships and trail-blazing creative partnerships between black and white artists, not to mention audiences.
The play was devised and written by Athol Fugard (now 75 and based in San Diego, California) in collaboration with the two great actors who first performed it, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. They were regularly hauled off the stage by the police when they first presented the play to white audiences in South Africa.
When the show came to the Royal Court in late 1973, it was a sensation, first in the Upstairs venue, then on tour, then on the main stage. I was fortunate enough to be able to publi...
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Gareth James - 3 April 2007:
It starts off very funny and then through a series of unpredictable turns becomes a deeply moving and poignant comment on a South Africa so recent yetso long ago. The performances are inspiring and the whole thing theatrical magic. Gareth...
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Athol Fugard (Author)
John Kani (Author)
Winston Ntshona (Author)
National Theatre (Producer)
Baxter Theatre Centre (South Africa) (Producer)
Aubrey Sekhabi (Director)
Mannie Manim (Lighting)
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