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@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/article/screen/print.css); Sizwe Banzi Is Dead - Review - Theater - New York Times var google_hints = "Theater,South+Africa,Brooklyn+Academy+of+Music"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_theater"; April 11, 2008 THEATER REVIEW | 'SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD' In South Africa, This Dead Man Does Tell Tales By CHARLES ISHERWOOD A man must die in order to live in Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, the 1972 play by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona about the dehumanizing treatment of South Africas black population under apartheid. With Mr. Kani and Mr. Ntshona reprising their original roles in the revival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, this bleak comic story of a man who can keep himself afloat only by putting himse...(read more)