The play was set in Chile, but could be Bombay. The major theme of the play is lack of Justice.

Set in Chile, South America, this is one of those rare plays which, with the limpid simplicity of classical myth, seem to grasp the pulse of the century. The period is the immediate aftermath of the dictatorship.

The new government has set up a commission to enquire into the human rights atrocities of the previous regime, and one of the members of the commission is Gerardo Escobar. His wife, Paulina, has ironically been a victim of those atrocities.

When Gerardo’s car breaks down on the highway, he is helped by Dr. Ricardo Miranda, and Paulina recognises in her husband’s saviour the doctor who had raped and tortured her. But was it really him? Can Paulina take the law into her own hands? What does she eventually do? These are the questions that the play leaves unanswered.

Ultimately justice is compromised. Paulina says bitterly, “The commission can investigate crimes, but nobody is punished for them. There is the freedom to say anything you want as long as they don’t say everything you want”.

Sabira Merchant courageously plays a Holocaust survivor who unwittingly lets the very man who hurt her in the camps into her home.

The play, a canvas of violence, cruelty, and expletives was a role that Sabira had never played before. But with Alyque safely at the directorial helm, Sabira was riveting and magnetic, treating her audience to facets of superb undiscovered acting craft.

Fun Facts : Just three actors. A tense script. And a brilliant director. Who could ask for more? The storyline was based on a supposed fact.

“The play left us actors drained emotionally and at the end of the show we all needed a strong drink to help us remember that we were merely actors recreating a time when people did dreadful things to each other,” says Sabira.

Although It was a really serious play, It did have some funny moments though, especially in execution.

Keith and Sabira were the two actors in the lead roles where Sabira Merchant knocks Keith unconscious and ties him to a chair.

They had to devise the ropes so that an assistant could quickly put it around Keith before the lights came on.

This had to be done in seconds and the guy often was so nervous that he often didn’t do a good job, which forced Keith to hold on to the rope tightly, pretending that he was trapped, when one could see the rope dangling loose!