Saw two plays on the weekend.
At least dozen theatre groups perform in Yerevan and at each season they add on their repertoire. Unlike anywhere else I've been, the audience is a fair mixture of very young, young and adults.
The play I saw and like to discuss is The Beast on the Moon presented by Metro Theatre.
Three years ago I had seen the English version in Toronto presented by Hrant Alianac.
It is only natural to compare the two, both were beautifully played, except that three issues bothered me and I'd like to share them with you.
In the Armenian version:
� at the end the couple splits, because the wife sees that the only way the husband can feel the empty head places in the family picture is for her husband to get remarried to another woman (because she's barren).
� the level of verbal and physical abuse by the husband was in high volume;
� The kid, (was it Vence), is housed with a catholic orphanage and is being sexually abused by a priest;
� After the wife walks away, the husband gives away items most dear to him including his bible and decides 'to live'.
Anyone read the original script? Just wondering, which version was truer to the story.