I’d like to comment on the Editor’s statement that the license for Vagina Monologue was probably refused on the grounds of sexual connotation. I beg to differ. I’d like to think that it is the insensitivity of quoting some Quranic phrases off the Quran by non-Muslims and interpreting it out of context that made them do that. I’m no Saint here but I believe that we should draw a line between what is truly artistic and what is just plain propagandist. I think the same would have been done if one were to put up a play and have people quoting the Bible and deconstructing it as the play flows. Tit for tat. How’s that?
First Published: 27.02.2002 on Kakiseni