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I'm reading Bravely Fought the Queen right now, & I found this post that I'd used as a reference a few months ago, while writing a research paper on the same play. It's a great review. And I'm so thankful I found this, because it's really difficult to find anything that can be used as a helpful resource for university exams, on this app. Especially when you're an Indian student & have a load of obscure-ass stuff as a part of your syllabus. 🙂

REVIEW OF BRAVELY FOUGHT THE QUEEN

Dattani’s vivacious and provocative play BRAVELY FOUGHT THE QUEEN visited three scenes in England as of late, the first occasion when that his work has been performed outside India. Created by Michael Walling’s organization Border Crossings and co directed by him and Dattani, this play incorporated a cast that joined craftsmen from India, the British South Asian people group, and the British white network.

Quickly, the content is in three acts, titled ‘Women’, 'Men’, and 'Bravely Fought the Queen’. The play is set in Bangalore of the 1980s and 1990s. The story is “revolved around an Indian family, in which two siblings, the co-proprietors of a promoting office, have hitched two sisters. The ladies stay at home a great part of the time, where they take care of the men’s maturing mother Baa. A great part of the play’s strain originates from the cooperation between the encased, claustrophobic, female universe of Act I and the male universe of business in Act 2. The way that both genders are leading lives dependent on dream is pitilessly uncovered when the characters stand up to one another in Act 3, and the real factors of their lives rise. The homosexuality of one of the siblings, the injured girl of the other marriage, Baa’s proceeded with nearness - these realities are covered in the uncomfortable world which the characters occupy. The play turns into a request for mankind and for resilience”. It is similarly a weep for the acknowledgment of Indian qualities that are moving, where custom and contemporary conflict, confound and make another social scene. Dattani composes with a sharpness that is skillfully masked, utilizing language that retreats to clearness and sharpness, one that pushes the restrictions of the verbally expressed word and the pregnant quiets in the middle.

An assortment of dramatic and specialized modes are adequately utilized. The holy space of the stage is characterized, reclassified, and adjusted at the same time by brilliant lighting structure and by the on-screen characters who guide out various regions, both focal and fringe, as they moderate walk on the edges of the casing while the equal account proceeds on the middle stage. Stylized developments, obviously enlivened by Bharatanatyam and Kucchipudi move structures are utilized to pass on developments, advances, continuations inside the content and the sub-writings. Dattani has altered his unique play-script vigorously.

Swathi R