Acting and Identity in Sizwe Banzi is Dead and in Death and the Kings

Both Sizwe Bansi is Dead, (written by Athol Fugard in collaboration with buns Kani and Winston Ntshona) and Death and the Kings Horseman (written by Wole Soyinka) are both set in South Africa, in two important and significant cultural signification for the country. Swize Bansi is Dead tells the difficult reality of Africa under apartheid (1950s), analysing the complex issue of identity element in that time. The rules of Apartheid meant that commonwealth were legally classified into a racial group, principally Black and White, and separated from each others. This division restricted black sight from being able to vote, having medical care, education, or other public services, and if when, in rare cases these were possible, they still were of a lot inferior compared to what white people were entitled to. Not only Black people were thus deprived of their write as human beings, as persons, but what most suggested that theyd disconnected their identities is that all of them had to have an identity book. This item, insert them into a clay of figures, where each one of them wasnt identified by a earn anymore, they were recognise and registered by a number. This is a very important issue of the play, in fact the focal point is to show us how irrelevant the name and the identity had become for those people. Is your name your identity? And if not, is it possible to maintain a electrostatic and truthful inside identity when deprived of all signs of singularity such as your own name?This theme is very frequently confronted in Sizwe Bansi is Dead. The main character, Sizwe Bansi is forced into talking a terrible decision. fetching a dead mans identity book, therefore stealing his official identity, to be able to get on with his life and keep in partake with his f... ...the characters show how loosing their write to vote and therefore express their opinion, and especially having to ladder an identity booklet all the time (just because of the colour of thei r skin) can fuss an inside crisis on ones identity. Is our identity determined by our name? screw we change name and be able to keep a stable identity? This play also raises the issue of being actors, just to succeed in the society they lived in. Not being able to show their feelings and their dismay at any time, obliged them to smile, sing, and fake.These issues are also raised in Death and the Kings Horseman, but more with showing how important and decisive our culture is for our personal identity. Thus, living in an era where this one is changing, because of the testy imposition of a new one, can torn ones personality, making them surmise all of their beliefs.