I.D. by Anton Sher
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ISBN: 9781854597540
Nick Hern Books, April 2004
128 pages, Paperback
It takes two to tango. Prime Minister and assassin. Corpse and culprit. Man and tapeworm.
On 6 September 1966 Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in the South African House of Assembly by Demetrios Tsafendas, a parliamentary messenger.
Antony Sher's play is a historical fable, a tragi-comic portrait of the mad old South Africa and of two individuals, the Prime Minister and his killer, both searching for the same thing - identity.