“…how many generations would it take before we cockroaches could be trained to walk in columns?” – King Cockroach in “Fate of A Cockroach”
Tewfik al Hakim’s three-act play, Fate of A Cockroach, is basically about the preoccupation of a man with the determination of a cockroach who endlessly climbs up the side of a bathtub only to fall back in.
In a country where being politically correct is the order of the day; where people go on air (radio, Television, Internet) to apologize for expressing an opinion that later rubbed some people the wrong way, and where people would rather “keep their mouth shut and just play ball”, we seem to be endlessly preoccupied with a determination to prove that we, the United States of America are a model of civility and “moral high-ground” only to fall back on our primordial instincts when we get emotional over negative events. Continue reading
