Manjula Padmanabhan Lights Out Summary

The play demonstrates the responses of women to rape i.e. of offensiveness which are given cognizance and all other attempts to treat it contrastingly are rejected. Even at the point when the audience hear the men discussing about the victim being dragged on the floor and is brutalized regardless she has the strength to shout, alongside the shouting, pushes them to rise above their constrained part as observers and responding as spokespersons of the social shrewdness of assault. Manjula Padmanabhan's, Lights Out highlights on the response of the male gaze to the scene of the gang rape in the space of urbanity.

The play is very realistic in style and content. They are so realistic to the extent that they portray the lives of common people

The lady being raped becomes the leit-motif of this erotic spectacle which is viewed both by the male characters in the play and the audience/reader outside the play. So the spectator within the play and the spectator outside the play are shown by representing the woman in one case and through the sounds of her groans in the other case. In the whole play, the position of the spectator in a room where the lights are out is actually a replication of the position of the spectator outside the text as reader/audience in his

She tried to create empathy of the experience being shared with the women in the audience and with an attempt that people change in future. Thus, the play not only exposes the reality that takes place in the society in the form of different abuses but also make people identify its consequences. It includes the deep rooted selfishness of common men, their attitude of why should I involve, which is projected in the play very clearly. Through the play the author conveys an important message on not to follow the footsteps by the spectators in the play. She clearly mentions in the modern world where people are educated and civilized, where they have advanced technologically doesn’t value others and have lost their basic