Muthal naidoo biography definition

  • Profile of Muthal Naidoo.
  • I wrote Flight from the Mahabharath, in which women abandon the epic and create a play in which they free themselves of stultifying traditions.
  • Author Dr. Muthal Naidoo, a South African playwright of Indian descent, often focuses her work on power dynamics in racially divided societies.

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    The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver

    Muthal Naidoo Awarded for:

    Her excellent achievement, contribution to and role in the field of arts, culture and literature in South Africa, and for giving voice to the issues of the downtrodden in South Africa through literary means.

    Profile of Muthal Naidoo

    Dr Muthal Naidoo, age 76, has excelled in the fields of arts, culture and literature in a career spanning more than 50 years. She did pioneering work in drama, co-starting a drama society in Durban in the early s, and writing and directing plays. As playwright, she has written 14 plays that have been published in an anthology entitled WIP (Work in Progress) Theatre Plays.

    She joined the Durban Academy of Theatre Arts in , with among others, Devi Bughwan, Pauline Morel, Fatima Meer, Ronnie Govender, Kessie Govender and Welcome Msomi. This company, which collaborated with Union Artists in Johannesburg, staged productions for mixed audiences. The Government banned it when it brought the

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    • Plays, Poems, Articles

      I spent the years to , involved in Anti-SAIC and UDF campaigns, which inspired me to write a number of plays:  We 3 Kings, a farce about ‘Indian’ elections, Ikhayalethu, about dispossession, Masks, the search for African identity.  One of my revues, The Masterplan, a comic interpretation of separate development and the Tricameral Parliament, was banned in September    My last play Flight from the Mahabarath, written sometime in the s, is a feminist critique of the epic.
      All my plays have now been published under the title WIP Theatre Plays. (WIP = Work-in-Progress)
      Going through my papers, I discovered a number of articles written over the years so I revised them and put them all together with new articles.  They include reflections on drama, reactions to apartheid, reflections on writing, my joy at discovering Milan Kundera and my attempt to understand the functions of religion and democracy in a society.

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      College of Fine and Applied Arts

      By Nancye Edwards

      The writer visits the High Country to participate in the world premiere of her work, “Flight from the Mahabharath,” at Appalachian State University in Boone.

      This month, the Department of Theatre and Dance at Appalachian State University will present the world premiere of “Flight from the Mahabharath.” It examines the “Mah&#;bh&#;rata,” one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, from the perspective of the hona characters. The “Mah&#;bh&#;rata,” often referred to as “the Epic,” serves as a metaphor for a patriarchal society where women function mainly as adjuncts. In the play, the women escape the Epic into a different genre, teaterpjäs. Joined bygd two dock, the play creates a new reality where the characters are free to explore their identities. The stage provides a home for action where the characters redefine themselves.

      Author Dr. Muthal Naidoo, a South