Kapoor provides mordant detail: the nature of prison conditions, the mechanism of censorship, the rounding up of opposition leaders, the forced sterilisations and the sheer terror of Sanjay Gandhi’s five-point programme. The legendary inefficiencies of the Indian state are exposed, which even an iron hand could not entirely remedy: “in a totalitarian state, the left hand does not know what the right hand was doing.”
- All of Indira’s Men and Women, IndianExpress.com, June 27, 2017.
2. If the political farce playing out on TV isn’t enough for you, Showboat Festival Theatre has plenty more in store.
No sooner had Canadian playwrights Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes polished off their new play, the political comedy Something Fishy, than the U.S. presidential race entered a bizarre new stage.
This week’s Republican convention just amplifies how bizarre things have gotten.
“You can’t write what’s happening in reality right now, people would think you’re insane,” she says. “We’re living in a farce. I’ve been saying this for the past few months.”
The third show of the Showboat Festival season in Port Colborne, Something Fishy deals with a federal election in the small town of Port Walmsley. Local hero Raymond Bream (Brad Rudy) has a major announcement to make which will tip the votes in his favour, but the incumbent prime minister he’s up against is sending henchmen to town to keep him quiet.
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