Sizwe Banzi is Dead - Market Theatre Theatrical Programme, 2014

Sizwe Banzi is Dead , The Market Theatre, Original Theatrical Programme, 2014, multipage, illustrated, condition: as new.

The Athol Fugard play directed by John Kani starring Atandwa Kani, son of John Kani.

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead is a play by Athol Fugard, written collaboratively with two South African actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, both of whom appeared in the original production. Its world première occurred on 8 October 1972 at the Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa. Its subsequent British première won a London Theatre Critics Award for the Best Play of 1974.] Its American première occurred at the Edison Theatre, in New York City, on 13 November 1974. It has been ranked among the best plays ever made by The Independent, where it was described as a "deceptively light and humane play that outlasts the apartheid era."

After six previews, the Broadway production, presented in repertory with The Island, opened on 13 November 1974 at the Edison Theatre, NYC, where it ran for 159 performances. Kani and Ntshona jointly won Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Play for their performances in both Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island. They reunited for the production staged at the Royal National Theatre in London in 2007. That year the play was translated into French by Marie-Hélène Estienne for a version staged by Peter Brook at the Barbican Centre.