A Comparative Study of
Existential Notion: Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and
Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Party
Sai Prateek
ABSTRACT
Comparative study of Harold Pinter’s play “The
Birthday Party” and Mahesh Elkunchwar’s play “Party” will be made on
the basis of the two distinct theatres namely the theatre of absurd
(western) and Theatre of Absurd (Indian). How an idea such as
“carnivalesque” can be so void and obscure at the same time will be
analyzed at the same time the use of “theatre of menace” will be
employed. The article will also seek to examine the similarities
between the two plays situated across two different cultures. There
will be discursive and analytical research methodology employed in
this article.
Keywords: Pinteresque, Menace, Carnivalesque, Theatre of Absurd,
Existentialism, Alienation, Canon.
