• Soumyadip Ghosh

Indian theatre, since its inception, underwent several layers of changes due to contemporary needs and issues. Mahesh Dattani’s plays in English attempt to decode various social issues prevalent at different points of time. The plays by Dattani seek to dismantle the existing heteronormative structure of sexuality and the characters of the plays, thereby, build identities based on their characteristic instincts and impulses. The present paper attempts to show the identities which the characters of the plays acquire through different body gestures and performativities. These characters, often termed as dissident, show their tenets of identities which work both as appropriation of and resistance to the so called establishment. The present paper aims at decoding the rooted identity inherent in the characters and seeks to present the characters in the select plays under the template of their newly achieved identities.

Identity, Body, Sexuality, Resistance and Theatre.

"On an Identity: A Rereading of Mahesh Dattani’s select plays", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.462-469, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902459.pdf

"On an Identity: A Rereading of Mahesh Dattani’s select plays", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp462-469, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902459.pdf