- 120 mins
- English (also at 3.30 pm on Sat and Sun)
- PW: Girish Karnad
- Dir: Arghya Lahiri/ Pushan Kripalani
- Troupe: Black Boxers Productions and the Industrial Theatre Co., Mumbai
- Phone: 93211 03921 indianstage.in bookmyshow.com
Hayavadana
Girish Karnad's Hayavadana, first performed in December 1972, returns in a lively English production.
It remains the quintessential play about the human being's search for completeness. The play was inspired by Thomas Mann's 'The Transposed Heads', which in turn borrowed from a Sanskrit tale from the Kathasaritsagara, an ancient compilation of stories in Sanskrit.
Karnad's play takes the tale of human identity further by exploring the identity, memory, love, sexuality and death in the tangled relationships of Padmini, Devadatta and Kaplia- the principal characters in the story.
