Mrunal Chavda
Assistant Professor, Institute of Language Studies and Applied Social Sciences. ORCID: 0000-0002-3817-4124. Email: mrunalchavdaiima@gmail.com,
Volume 12, Number 2, April-June, 2020 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n2.09
Abstract
This article uses the Natyashastra, an Indian treatise on performing arts, to develop an overlooked method of theatrical analysis. This treatise offers useful insights on how gestures are produced during the performance, which has been practiced by performers across the world. While scholars research the Natyashastra in the contexts such as theatre, rasa theory, and its bodymind connection, this treatise has been employed to analyze gestures produced by contemporary Indian theatre performers in Mahesh Dattani’s Where Did I Leave My Purdah. The outlined exercise through an examination of a case study advocates a method of theatrical analysis.
Keywords: production analysis, Mahesh Dattani, Indian theatre in English, Natyashastra.
