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| Marimankanni | ||||||||
| 13 January 2012, LTG, 6:30 pm | ||||||||
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Playwright: M.N.Vinayakumar |
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| The Play | ||||||||
| The story begins with the casual conversation of a group of youngsters who are discussing kathakali and Unnayi Warrier, and who fall asleep at the end of discussion. Soon the palace of Karthika Thirunal, Maharaja of Travancore, and the period when Nalacharithram, one of the masterpieces of Malayalam literature, was written by Unnayi Warrier unfold before them as dreamscapes. Bhanumathi, a woman who appears as a maid in the palace, acts as Unnayi Warrier's muse. The mystic and tragic story of Bhanumathi is interspersed with illustrative examples of women who were physically, intellectually, socially, emotionally oppressed by the shackles of society. Marimankanni is an exploration into the circumstances in which Nalacharitham was written. It depicts the historicity of the theme with a touch of fantasy, while adapting it to a contemporary mode of presentation. |
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