Evaluate Mahesh Dattani’sTara as a memory play.

Evaluate Mahesh Dattani’sTara as a memory play.

Dattani’s Tara is a memory play as it is narrated by the main character focusing on the past. In Tara, memory plays an important part, both thematically and in terms of the play’s presentation. Thematically, we see the detrimental effects of memory in the form of Tara’s living in the past. As far as the play’s presentation is concerned, the entire story is told from the memory of Dan, the narrator. Selective memories, remembered events with music, with peculiar lighting, altered and edited realities of past made the play presentable in certain ways that give it a complete shape of a memory play. This is how we see the play, directly as a memory play.

Dattani’s Tara confirms to almost all the characters of a memory play. A pure memory play combines the following features as propagated by Tennessee Williams:

1) a character experiences something profound and usually painful.

2) an amount of time ellapses, or, as Williams says, there is an "arrest of time" in which the consciousness of what has occurred forms.

3) the re-living of the same painful experience over and over again, until the character is able to reach redemption.

Dattani presents the play in memory   with reminiscent scenes seen through light effects and music. The dramatist uses expressionistic technique with psychological presentation of characters. The play begins with Dan (Chandan) speaking to the audience:  ‘‘Yes. I have my memories. Locking myself in a bedsitter in a seedy suburb of London, thousands of miles from home hasn’t put enough distance between us… Twinkle Tara. A drama in two acts by Chandan Patel”.........................................

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