I was given a ticket by a friend to attend her show at the
Kenya cinema. She wanted money in exchange. I felt her impatience by the
relation we developed thereafter. Between us telepathy went;
‘Give me the Money’,
‘I won’t even attend
the event, girl’.
‘Mary is no longer a virgin’ was the title of the play that
would make my Saturday fun, a break from my delicate youthful life in the
capital. What a title! Mary, a woman, a name famous in the Bible and
communities, favourite for parents to name their daughters. Her virgin status
at the time of giving birth to a Messiah is her sanctification to any puritan
mind. When you say she is no longer a virgin, what do you mean? You have just
descended into cheap blasphemy and more so debauchery. Virginity is linked to
sex. That would mean that the play is all about how Mary approaches situations
that make her lose innocence. So?
Most of the campus plays were like the above. A famous lady
in the campus approaches you in reddish lipstick, exposed cleavage with her ‘getting
late’ mammary glands and of course a short dress if not a tight trouser to sell
you a ticket among other titles ‘Why I killed my Boss’. The tickets have a
picture of a lady whose hand is smeared in blood holding a knife. She is
wearing what I’d call a swimming dress. The message to the youth goes sexual. I
never attended any willingly.
Materials that appeal to youth are sex, fame and money- an average
youth that is. He develops all manner of slangs around it and talks are more
likely to drag to sexual terms. We continue being fed by the media and such
events hence using most of our time in leisure. At the end of the day, with
such an environment, we have retarded in growth.
The writers to plays, afraid of public concern plays due to
our funny governments shallowly retrieve to the above titles. An Enemy of the People for instance
speaks about corruption in a ‘grown way’. Kenya is rated no. 4 worldwide but we
don’t have the art to mock it. Inflation is in, traffic in the city is a mess,
Universities are host grounds to laziness and business, and Organisations are
people owned rather than community driven. To talk about sex, the damn of man leisure’s
is to give him a seat in ignorance. No sex talks may emancipate us. The more it
is given least attention the least it will thrive.
I will definitely be at the theatre next time when the best
plays will not only be attended by multitudes but also shape public opinions
for the better of the society.
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