Enquiry

The word seems almost anachronistic today. What went wrong? Are we obliged to take everything at face value? What about investigation, scientific hunger, questioning? Is truth not worth the effort or have we simply forgotten its existence?

Belief for belief's sake is the flavour of the century.

But who will question these answers? Dot Theatre's 'Men and Dog' asks these questions and explores the beginnings of an answer.

'Men and dog' is an adapted envisioning of Indira Parathasarathy's acclaimed one act play- 'Man, Woman and Dog'. Both plays deal with the fatalism and blind faith that has become the currency of the masses. The satire comes into play when the audience is shown that it is not they who hold these beliefs but the beliefs that hold them.

The audience becomes a player by proxy, as two of their own kind, two bored men put their minds to taking in and raising a puppy. All tools are not weapons but all weapons are tools, the mind being the most powerful of them all.

'Men and dog' shows how destructive an indiscriminately used weapon can be. It shows in real time how belief can go from being asylum to being attacker more insidiously than either of the men could have imagined. The men are so blinded by their ideal that even the real seems unreal. Come find out what happens when the mind wreaks havoc with its games with two unsuspecting men and their new little puppy.

It's a play about two men and a dog. What could possibly go wrong? 

-Lavanya Krishna