Written by Dipanita Nath |Published: June 13, 2019 4:59:20 pm
The Thin Red Line
Does Menon ever feel a conflict with himself? “I am not shy on stage though I find it very difficult to have conversations with people off it. I am always thinking, ‘what if I say the wrong thing?’” he says.
Vasudev Menon is playing the man of God — and running them down — in Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts. The character of Pastor Manders is tirelessly moral, dispensing wisdom such as, “It is not a wife’s part to be her husband’s judge”, and you can almost hear Menon laugh as he acts. “What I am trying to explore is that people who are religious heads of society have a facade but are inherently corrupt. I see that in the corruption of the church and the godmen in India. For me, Manders is a person whose hands are just as soiled as those of the people he is trying to preach to, if not more,” says Menon. At the end of the play, Manders is left with nothing but the facade, but even that begins to crumble. Ghosts, by the group The Drama Queens, opened in Pune on June 9 and will travel to Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi.
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