Opera House Bound?
Living legend English stage director Sir Peter Hall is forsaking his long-time home in France for a while to oversee a new staging of apartheid era South African classic Sizwe Banzi is Dead.
The two-hander broke new ground, politically and theatrically, when first staged in 1972, also under Hall's direction. It was written by Athol Fugard in conjunction with his two then-unknown performers, Winston Ntshona and John Kani, and told the story of how a poor migrant worker circumvented the apartheid system by assuming the papers of a dead man.
Now Brook is revisiting the play in a new London production and, the rumour goes, it will tour. The backstage cat says we should be looking at the Sydney Opera House’s theatre schedules for the coming year ...
