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A final thematic will briefly compare Kurup's adaptations with those occurring in the British South Asian context, notably Jatinder Verma's 2001 A Ramayana Odyssey and his 1990 Tartuffe.
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The paper explores Tara Arts "theatre of connections" by analysing a selection of European classics produced by the company's Artistic Director Jatinder Verma.
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In particular, the paper will focus on the specific theatre vocabulary created by Verma as an imaginative tool for the re-interpretation of the European imperial past in the South Asian continent and its repercussions on contemporary British society.
Verma's ,act of translation' of Molière and Buchner and Sophocles' plays is imbued with experiences of colonialism, migration and quest for cultural roots/routes, which critically reflects the cross-fertilisation of contemporary British culture and makes his eclectic style one of one the most successful examples of intercultural theatre in Britain.He achieves this by re-creating new historical and cultural settings for the classical texts, while producing on the level of mise-en-scène a unique form of hybridisation of Eastern and Western theatre traditions
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Jatinder Verma, 15 March 2007.