A heart-wrenching play about sex trafficking
Kenyetta Lethridge’s heart-wrenching play, Innocent Flesh, hits the Maltese stage asking: are we doing enough to combat sex trafficking on our shores? The production is directed by Marc Cabourdin and stars four of Malta’s up-and-coming actresses –...
Kenyetta Lethridge’s heart-wrenching play, Innocent Flesh, hits the Maltese stage asking: are we doing enough to combat sex trafficking on our shores? The production is directed by Marc Cabourdin and stars four of Malta’s up-and-coming actresses – Nadia Vella, Tina Rizzo, Simone Alamango and Sarah Jane Mallia.
Lethridge’s play was inspired by what she witnessed while working with youngrunaways on the streets, and tells of four girls who get offered everything in return for their innocence. The story takes the audience into the secret world of sex trafficking and a life of sex with strangers, rape, abortion, molestation and cries for help.
“Innocent Flesh is one of those stories that opens your eyes wide, dispelling the belief that young girls get involved in this industry because they want to. It highlights the fact that the people who run human and sex trafficking operations prey on the weak and naïve, right when the victims have no other options. In Malta we are less likely to see it with our children, but it does and is happening and, given the wrong situation, anyone could get involved.”
The play has caused a furore wherever it has been played, affecting audiences greatly because of its harsh content and home truths. The New York Times, in fact, wrote that the script “will make you want to grab your daughters and tell them you love them”.
Innocent Flesh runs at the Vault Theatre, the Valletta Waterfront on November 9, 10, 15, 16 and 17. Tickets can be purchased online or from the Embassy Cinema box office in Valletta, priced at €10 for the opening weekend and €15 for the consecutive one.
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