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Inner Beast.(Theater Review)
Acclaimed Shakespearean actor Anthony Sher was in his last year of high school in Cape Town when South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in Parliament in 1966. His assassin, a temporary messenger named Demetrios Tsafendas, claimed he had been driven by a giant tapeworm living inside him. The shock and strangeness of the event stayed with Sher and is now the subject of his first play, "I.D.," showing at London's Almeida Theatre until Oct. 30.
Despite its title, this is less a play about identity than a fascinating look at the nightmarish beasts that arise in its absence. Sher suggests that Dutch-born Verwoerd was never regarded by the Afrikaners as an equal, and took out his rage on black South Africans by implementing apartheid laws. "They were born here, yet I make them aliens," his character says with ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Inner Beast.(Theater Review)