SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY

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NAGAMANDALA

Play	Girish Karnad
Direction	Suman Mukhopadhyay
First performed	November, 2005
Production	Department of Theatre and Films, Kalamazoo College, USA

About the play

The play Nagamandala is a folk story adapted by one of the most important playwrights of the post-colonial India. Women of the family narrate these folk stories to the children while they are being put to bed. Though directed to the children, they often served as a corresponding interaction among the women themselves. These stories work as a counterpoint to the patriarchal compositions of the society.

Playwright Girish Karnad mentions" "The empty house Rani is locked in could be the family she is married into." And Rani asks: - "Do desires really reach out from some world beyond right into our beds?"

Rani cannot solve the conundrum of her husband's contradictory identities in days and in nights. How would Rani unravel the riddle of these fragmented identities?

Desire gets a perpetual residence inside Rani as a process of disavowal and repudiation to the existing reality of subjugation and domination.

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