WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO?

PUBLISHED October 29th, 2014 06:37 pm | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am

‘Inspired by a lecture of the same name by the man who is behind the success of Singapore Zoological Gardens (SZG) and Night Safari, Bernard Harrison sought to explain whether humankind possessed a collective conscience given our unethical treatment of animals …

Structured around a series of intersecting narratives, this highly thematic play is a critical yet comic interrogation of what it means to be human – and indeed animal – within the highly bounded spaces inscribed by human society and
culture.

Through the story of a disgruntled vegan zoo keeper and her two tiger charges, the spirit of a cow slaughtered for meat, an Indian IT specialist driven to eat meat despite his strict vegetarian upbringing and festering sense of guilt, a veteran housewife cum host who advises young women on the art of preparing meat for the dinner table as part of a larger strategy for surviving married life with a man and a hapless chicken who flies directly and uncomprehendingly into a predator’s den, we come to explore the often complex and contradictory nature of our appetites and actions, what it means to eat meat (or refuse to eat it) and,
ultimately, why we do what we do.

Performed as a solo piece by Sharda Harrison and written by Ken Mizusawa and Charlene Shepherdson.

An idea conceptualized by Sharda and Sean Harrison.

This is a Pink Gajah Theatre and Word Forward Collaboration

Venue: 28 Aliwal Street #02-05 Aliwal Arts Centre

Date: 13th Dec (3pm, 8pm) and 14th Dec (3pm,8pm)

Tickets: $20.00

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