Five Lords, Yet None a Protector: AND Words Sweet and Timeless: Two Plays - Softcover

Mitra, Saoli

 
9788185604497: Five Lords, Yet None a Protector: AND Words Sweet and Timeless: Two Plays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8185604495 ISBN 13: 9788185604497
Publisher: Bhatkal & Sen, 2007

Synopsis

These two plays are both based on the 'Mahabharata'. The story of Draupadi is narrated in the first play. She was married to the five royal Pandava brothers and narrates her humiliation at the hands of the Kauravas, the cousins of her husbands and rivals for the throne. The second play is again set within the 'Mahabharata', looking at the destruction of an age of a civilisation. The tragedy of the royal women, Satyavati, Amba, Ambika and Ambalika, the abducted princesses, of Kunti, gandari, Draupadi, Subhadra and the young Uttara, continues to have bearings on our times. Both the plays are one-woman performances in the tradition of 'kathakatha', a rural Bengali genreof dramatised storytelling, and use live music, some of it played by the narrator herself. The apparent naivete of the single woman's voice in the play builds a relationship of collusion with the audience. Subverting traditional theatre of the Western type and by the gendering of the stories, Mitra's plays challenge the audience's views of 'decorum'.

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About the Author

Saoli Mitra is a distinguished actress, director and playwright. Translator Rita Dutta is a teacher and critic. The other translator Moushumi Bhowmik is composer, singer and editor.

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Publisher
Bhatkal & Sen
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8185604495
ISBN 13 
9788185604497
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224