Play Details
Context
Place Premiered
Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa (1972)
Artistic Director
Oscar Lewenstein
Dates Performed
Thursday 20th September 1973
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Play Details
Synopsis
A Photographers studio in South Africa during the Apartheid
A man enters Style’s photography studio with a specific purpose: to have his photo taken for a letter to his wife. As we observe, this man, Sizwe Bansi, an economic migrant, carefully crafts his letter. In it, he unveils a startling truth – to escape forced repatriation and stay in Port Elizabeth to support his family, he has fabricated his own death and assumed the identity of a local. The photo and the letter together serve as a poignant testament to his desperate measures for survival and familial duty.
Cast & Creative
Cast
John Kani
Cast
Winston Ntshona
Designer