DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES IN THE SELECTED NOVELS OF MAHESH DATTANI (Pages 126-131) by Mrs. M. Vasanthi * and Mrs. K. Vimala Devi ** in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

Mahesh Dittani’s plays are remarkable for the technical craftsmanship. Dattani ensures that the enactment on stage will be effective when detailed stage directions are given. He uses space very skillfully, some times as confining and some times as widening. He moves from one part of the stage to another from one level of the stage to another, and he lights up different areas of the stage at different times. As he does this, his characters move in time. Age becomes youth, 1990s become 1947 and, past, present and future come together. The complex structure of these plays matches their complex and disturbing thematic quality.ahesh Dittani’s plays are remarkable for the technical craftsmanship. Dattani ensures that the enactment on stage will be effective when detailed stage directions are given. He uses space very skillfully, some times as confining and some times as widening. He moves from one part of the stage to another from one level of the stage to another, and he lights up different areas of the stage at different times. As he does this, his characters move in time. Age becomes youth, 1990s become 1947 and, past, present and future come together. The complex structure of these plays matches their complex and disturbing thematic quality.Key-words: Disillusionment, Identity, Tradition, Structure, Patriarchal, Modernization etc.