THE LESSON

By MTG editorial

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Writer : Eugne Ionesco

Director : Sukant Goel

Cast : Atul Kumar, Anna Ador & Jaya Virlley

HARKAT STUDIOS is very please to announce a 2-day fringe (Mumbai Edition) as an extended part of the Jairangam festival in Jaipur.

The Lesson, a one-act play by Eugène Ionesco, is a comedic parable of the dangers inherent in indoctrination, performed in 1951 as La Leçon and published in 1953.

In a seemingly lonely old professor’s house, a young pupil comes for her ‘lesson’ as she wants a Doctorate in ‘all the possible streams.’

The professor seems to be her best hope and his encouraging, respectful and demure demeanour, make her feel all the more confident.

But as the lesson progresses, the professor starts to assert himself more and more strongly, becomes aggressive to the point of murderous towards the pupil, who, over the same course of time, is slowly but surely reduced to a limp, lifeless object, with no control over herself, and a mere putty in the professor’s hands. The play tackles the overall idea of the menace of totalitarianism with wit, precision and delectable use of language.

Through the skewed and one dimensional relationship of a teacher and student, as giver and taker, the play asks several questions, both personal and political.

Are we awake? Are we aware? Are we free?

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