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| Stories within stories in Ultimate Kurukshetra |
The Mahabharata as a narrative structure is mind boggling. Eighteen books, a hundred thousand verses, accretions, redactions, interpolations… reams of scholarship have been committed to this field of study. It is also a frame narrative, where the story is nested within dialogues between characters (Vaiśampāyana-King Janamejaya, Ugraśrava Sauti to an assembly of sages, and others). The legendary author of the narrative (Vyasa, Krishna Dvaipāyana according to some), is also a character within it. Ultimate Kurukshetra mimics this story-within-a story structure. The story is presented in multiple narrative frames, and in the microcosm of the stage, humbly pays homage to the greatness of the epic. The play takes as a starting point that even the very small action, matters in the face of the very great moment!
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