Brave Fought The Queen Analysis

Introduction On the Indian Literary scene Mahesh Dattani has achieved a prestigious status for his unconventional approach to theatrical Indian. For him theatre was not a medium for entertainment or for the presentation of philosophical ideals as it is evident in the plays of Sir Aurbindo and Rabindranath Tagore. He categorically accepts that society and theatre are closely dependent on each other. A theatrical artist cannot achieve perfection only through high standards of theatrical canons. For him the representation of society through stage can help to establish a better bonding between the commitments of theatre and the needs of society. If one of his interview with Uma Mahadevan, he admitted:

My milieu is theatre, you can’t operate in

He admits that strong dramatic situation must focus at social issues because they can contribute in bringing out social changes.

The play Bravely Fought the Queen is a famous stage play of Dattani exposing and exploring the socio-psychological imbalance of gender-centric approaches in middle class urban families in India. Fissured into three acts, the play presents certain harsh realities affecting the life and sensibility of woman in the middle class families. In context the play, Asha Kuthari

In this play Dattani makes no specific agenda of women’s oppression but he selects the situations to establish that woman is also endowed with the ability to construct her own human identity. He interprets woman as “a human being gifted with equal sensibility to reciprocate the sensibility of their male counterparts.” (Agarwal : 71) In one of his interview, Dattani mentions that each woman possess her own private human self that provides her strength to resist the forces that are hostile to herself