DP 2 students presented their first performance of Hayavadana, a part of their Theatre Arts programme at Mahatma Gandhi International School.

The Play
Hayavadana is a play written by Girish Karnad, originally in Kannad and later translated in English. The play’s plot comes from Kathasaritsagara, an ancient collection of stories in Sanskrit. Drawing on Thomas Mann’s play “Transposed Heads”, Karnad adapted the play to approach the problem of identity in a world of tangled relationships.
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The students of Theatre Arts Diploma Programme Year 2 present ‘Antigone’ a Greek myth rewritten by French writer Jean Anouilh during the second world war. Antigone’s revolt against her uncle, King Creon, represents the French Resistance’s ‘no’ to the German occupation of France during the II World war. The play can be seen in the modern context as the conflict between the young and the old, the status of women, individual beliefs and conviction against societal laws and a deeper question of free will and pre-determined fate. Anouilh’s humane treatment of Creon and the feminist treatment of Antigone makes the play interesting to modern audiences.

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