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Mahesh Dattani's Plays

Critical Perspectives

Edited by
Angelie Multani

Pencraft International

New Delhi-110052

Contents

Acknowledgements
5

Introduction
Angelie Multani

11

1
Towards a Multicultural Theatre: Mahesh Dattani

and the Changing Audience for Contemporary
Indian Drama in English
Radha Ramaswamy
35

2
We Live in the Flicker: Reflections in
Time on the Plays of Mahesh Dattani

John McRae
53

3
'Everyone will be in Costumes! And will have

Masks on!' Gender and Performance in
Bravely Fought the Queen
Michael Walling
67

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Consuming and Selling Women:
An Analysis of Gender Play and the
Politics of Capitalism in Mahesh Dattani's

Bravely Fought the Queen
Payal Nagpal
76

5
Dismembering Traditions within
Postcolonial Contexts: A Retrospective

look into Dance Like a Man
Gouri Nilakantan Mehta
99

6
Final Solutions?
Angelie Multani

109

7
Too Much That Is Sacred':
Ritual and Mahesh Dattani's

Final Solutions
Swati Pal
122

8
Terrifying Tara:
The Angst of the Family

GJVPrasad
134

9
Constructing the Self and the Other:

Seven Steps Around the Fire and
Bravely Fought the Queen
Miruna George
145

10
Invisible Issues: An Interview with

Mahesh Dattani
Erin B. Mee
156

A Conve
Mahes
Angeli

Cont

11
ersation with
sh Dattani
ie Multani

165

tributors
172