Purge

Text of the day: “Don’t you know the old joke about the hare and the camel? The hare ran for his life over to the other hares. They asked him, ‘What’s up?’ The hare answered, ‘There’s a death sentence out on all the camels.’ The other hares looked at him in astonishment and said, ‘But you’re not a camel, you’re a hare, and by no stretch of the imagination could anyone ever mistake you for a camel.’ The hare answered, ‘Yes I know that, but what proof do I have?’ I always had my bag packed and ready, but hidden, so that it wouldn’t look too much like I was planning a quick escape.” (Aliide in Sofi Oksanen’s Purge)

Arcola Theatre genocide Purge Sofi Oksanen