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Foul
play
It
was a bold thing to do, to use the "f" word a dozen times, not
to mention other vulgar unmentionables on the Chennai stage. Mike Cullen's
Anna Weiss, staged by the Madras Players on June 5, was, as the tickets to
the play clearly specified, strictly for those "above 18". Could
have been why the 500-seater Museum Theatre was only half full. And the
audience almost collectively reeled when the dialogues rolled out. Like
when Anna Weiss, a psychologist, tells her young patient Lynn that all men
are "hole-hunters". But for all the shouting and screaming and
expletives, there was a point, a message in the medium. As the play's
director Mithran Devanesan pointed out: "It took us a lot of courage
to talk about sexual abuse and pull it off without being accused of being
lewd. Where else but theatre
could you have got up and done that?"
True. On film, the censors would have had a jolly time going cut,
cut, cut.
-Methil
Renuka
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