TY - JOUR AU - R Kalidasan AU - R K Jaishree Karthiga PY - 2019/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Girish Karnad's Hayavadana - A Setting for Sacred and Profane JF - Shanlax International Journal of English JA - english VL - 7 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.34293/english.v7i4.599 UR - https://www.shanlaxjournals.in/journals/index.php/english/article/view/599 AB - Hayavadana, a multiplex play, offers various binary themes for discussion. By combining the indigenous Yakshagana and the western Brechtian Epic theatre practices, Girish Karnad has created a unique theatre display, presenting it as a social and religious satire that point to the persistent pursuit of the humanity to achieve perfection. The plot and the sub-plot of the play get interlocked by raising questions on identity and the nature of reality. The dramatist intentionally effects a dynamic communication between the audience and the performance, noting that the audience too are not separate from such an existential predicament. This Verfremdungseffekt or the “alienation effect”, is achieved through a number of devices. One such device, apart from the folk-theatre motifs, is the philosophical survey of the concepts, ‘Sacred’ and the ‘Profane’. This paper ventures to show how these concepts add further investigation of the play. ER -