London [England] : Methuen Drama (UK), 2020 ; London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
Language:
English
Notes:
The central plot in Hayavadana is based on a tale found in the Kathasaritsagara (The Ocean of Story), a collection of Sanskrit stories dating from the eleventh century, and on its further development in Thomas Mann's 1940 German novella The Transposed Heads. Thus Hayavadana's origins are intergeneric (a folktale transformed into a novella into a play) and intercultural (the story travelled from India to Germany and back again). 'Inter-ness' pervades Hayavadana at every level, from its origins to its thematic content to its production history.--