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| | The Hindu : Literary Review / Book Review : Katha as drama |
 | | Set first in Ayodhya, then in exile, followed by Lanka, and then Ayodhya again, the play is structured as a katha, with Jalabala Vaidya in the role of the katha vachaka (storyteller), portraying over 20 characters in the course of the performance. |
 | | A low chair, a little table, a bound copy of the epic, a five-wick votive lamp, and the katha vachaka: "Here was excellent dramatic material, a potential theatrical medium with a technique practised and perfected over several hundred years." The mediating, commenting, intervening voice of the katha vachaka underlines the moral power of the play. |
 | | It is the katha vachaka who tells us, at the end of the play, of Rama's state of disarray his broken sword, his broken bow, his empty quiver as he returns to the forest to seek out Sita and give her "the universe in this moment of truth". |
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