Sizwe Banzi is Dead

**** 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.