Plays
About
Girish Karnad is a playwright, film-maker and actor. He writes in Kannada, the language of the State of Karnataka and has translated his plays into English. Some of his more recent plays however were written originally in English.
His play, Hayavadana (1971) won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays, edited by Michael Patterson (2005), lists it among the ‘most significant plays of world theatre’. Naga-Mandala (1988) was premiered in the US in 1993 by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis as part of its Thirtieth Anniversary Celebrations, which then commissioned The Fire and the Rain. In 2002, the Haymarket Theatre, in Leicester, UK, commissioned and premiered Bali the Sacrifice.
His other plays are: Yayati (1961), Tughlaq (1964), Taledanda (1990), The Dreams of Tipu Sultan ( commissioned by the B.B.C. Radio in 1997 ), Two Monologues: Flowers / Broken Images (2004) and Wedding Album (2008).