LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:4 April 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Mahesh Datani’s Dance Like a Man as an Epic Theatre

Dr. (Mrs.) N. Velmani., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

A Contemporary Voice

Mahesh Dattani, an authentic contemporary voice, a director, playwright, producer, founder of a theatre group known as ‘Playpen’ is an intellectually stimulating Sahitya Academy Winner with an excellent awareness of Indian theatre. There is proper blending of Western intellectual consciousness and Indian theatrical techniques in his plays. He himself comments on the relevance of Indian theatre:

There is going to be a good positive development because as we get into the internet age which isolates human beings, the act of communication will be a premium. Theatre is our cultural activity directly related to human beings’ communication with each other (Qtd in Chaudhuri 23).

Mahesh Dattani uses his studio at Bangalore as a centre for creative collaboration among playwrights, directors, actors and audience.

Theory of Epic Theatre

Brecht, the major twentieth century theoretician of drama, evolved a major aesthetic theory, the theory of Epic theatre, fit for a scientific age. He significantly pronounced.

“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors” (13)

Brecht’s emphasis is on the need to alienate the audience from any illusion of reality by metatheatrical elements of stage devices like induction, prologue, play-within the play, direct speech, aside addressed to the audience, addressed primary to the mind through devices such as music, dance, plastic art, pantomime, mimicry, gesticulation, lighting, scenery with the help of sub-titles, projections and stills having the documentary effect.

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Dr. (Mrs.) N. Velmani
Associate Professor of English
V.V.Vanniaperumal College for Women
Virudhunagar-626001
Tamilnadu
India
velmanichandrasekar@gmail.com
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