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What is 'The Sin Eater'?
Synopsis
The Sin Eater
By JS Hartley
(A play in one act)
The play has been written for two
characters – the torturer and the interviewer. However it is important
to note that the torturer covers the concept of various different
stories of different torturers, it is not intended to be the one voice,
the one person.
The scenery consists of two chairs and a
table with a simple cloth , a jug of water and two glasses. Bare
spotlights are used throughout to make the positions of the chairs, and
general lights on the stage area. No other lighting is used.
The play centres around memories of
interviews and material from interviews – some (semi) fabricated, some
factual. The factual accounts have not been attributed and the torturer
remains nameless deliberately to emphasise how he can be any one of us,
that his monstrous capacity does not give him a monstrous appearance and
that he could easily be the person standing next to us waiting for the
bus or sitting next to us in a café, a neighbour, someone we work
beside, even a member of our own family.
You cannot transcend
What you do not know.
To go beyond yourself
You must know yourself.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
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