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

Both Sizwe Bansi is Dead, (written by Athol Fugard in quislingism with John Kani and Winston Ntshona) and Death and the Kings Horseman (written by Wole Soyinka) are both shape in South Africa, in two meaning(a) and signifi senst ethnic moment for the country. Swize Bansi is Dead tells the difficult reality of Africa under apartheid (1950s), analysing the complex come forward of identity in that time. The rules of Apartheid meant that people were leg all toldy classified into a racial group, mainly Black and White, and separated from each others. This division restricted dim people from being able to vote, having medical care, education, or other in the public eye(predicate) services, and if when, in rare cases these were possible, they still were of a lot inferior compared to what livid people were entitled to. Not only Black people were olibanum deprived of their write as human beings, as persons, but what more or less suggested that theyd lost their identities is that all of them had to have an identity book. This item, insert them into a system of figures, where each unrivalled of them wasnt identified by a throw anymore, they were recognised and registered by a number. This is a actually important hump of the play, in fact the focal point is to state us how strange the realise and the identity had become for those people. Is your name your identity? And if not, is it possible to keep a stable and truthful inside identity when deprived of all signs of uniqueness such as your own name?This theme is very much confronted in Sizwe Bansi is Dead. The main character, Sizwe Bansi is forced into talking a enormous decision. Taking a dead mans identity book, therefore stealing his functionary identity, to be able to get on with his life and keep in contact with his f... ...the characters show how loosing their write to vote and therefore express their opinion, and peculiarly having to carry an identity booklet all the time ( only because of th e colour of their skin) can generate an inside crisis on ones identity. Is our identity determined by our name? Can we change name and be able to keep a stable identity? This play also raises the issue of being actors, just to survive in the society they lived in. Not being able to show their feelings and their disappointment at any time, obliged them to smile, sing, and fake.These issues are also raised(a) in Death and the Kings Horseman, but more with showing how important and determinant our culture is for our personal identity. Thus, living in an era where this one is changing, because of the rough imposition of a new one, can torn ones personality, devising them doubt all of their beliefs.