Acting and Identity in Sizwe Banzi is Dead and in Death and the King's Horseman

Two "Sizwe Bansi is dead" (written by Athol Fugard in collaboration with John Kani and Winston Ntshona) and "Death and the King's Horseman" (written by Wole Soyinka) all have two important and important cultural It is set at the moment. For the country. "Swize Bansi is dead" talks about the difficult reality of Africa under apartheid (1950s) and analyzes the complicated problem of identity at the time. The apartheid rule means that people are classified legally into ethnic groups, mainly black and white, and separated from each other.

Death and the king of the king are based on a dramatic story of a drama based Soinka, focusing on the role of Elekin in the King's Cavaliers. According to the tradition of Yoruba, the death of the king must accompany death by the king's knight and king's dog and horse ritual. Because the knight's spirit is essential to help the chief's spiritual progress. Otherwise, the spirit of the king will paralyze on Earth and will harm the Yoruba. In the first half of the drama the ceremonial process was recorded, but before the ceremonial process began Eresin sent a fulfilling life lover on the last day of his life. Lastly, local British colonial ruler Simon Pickins intervened and the British authorities considered barbarous and illegal.

Death and king 's knight drama told the story of the king' s knight Elesin, which is expected to commit suicide after the death of the king, but his mission distracted. The story is based on historical events. In 1946, the king of the king named Elesin was forbidden to commit suicide by the British colonial state. Soyinka changed the historical facts and made Alesin's responsibility for failure a Alesin's shoulder so that he could concentrate on the subject of responsibility rather than colonialism.

King's death and knight, one of the tragedies of Solingka, were representatives of Yoruba's worldview. Yorba's cosmology has three worlds: the world of life, the world of the dead, and the immature world. This theater focuses on the transition between all three worlds, the way people from different worlds meet and interact. The beginning of the drama involved the burial of the dead king 's death. The king's knight Elesin wore a stunning robe, entered the village market with a magnificent dance team, followed by singers and drummers. Eresin danced until paralyzed in transition. He plays poetry and songs about the relationship between the ancestral world and the three worlds.