Ankur Vikal, the sole male actor in Nirbhaya, Yael Farber’s extraordinary play about sexual violence, describes the piteous lives of these migrant men to me: “They come from the village without their women, and live ten-to-a-house somewhere on the outskirts. They get jobs where they are in extreme close proximity to women, as tailors, guards, drivers…” He goes on to describe the clash of cultures and clothes that they experience, not to mention the urges that accompany the porn they are watching: “They probably all resent staying together and are missing their wives, and they are measuring
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