Steve Biko: The Inquest

Steve Biko: The Inquest is a play devised by Saira Essa and Charles Pillai based partly on The Biko Inquest by John Blair and Norman Fenton.

The original text

Published as Steve Biko : the inquest : a documentary based on the inquest hearing into the death in detention of Steven Bantu Biko, devised by Saira Essa & Charles Pillai. Durban : Art Printers, [ca.]1985. ISBN 9780620094832 (paperback).

Performance history in South Africa

Presented by The Upstairs Theatre Company in 198* directed by Saira Essa starring Charles Pillai, Kerneels Coertzen, Peter Holden, Willem Pretorius, Chris Steyn, Mike Huff, Michael Maxwell, Ralph Draper, Ronald France.

Sources

Steve Biko: The Inquest programme notes.

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