Theatre
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Nov- 2019 -14 November
Riz Ahmed highest ranked arts personality in annual British Asian Power List 101…
The GG2 Power List 2020 is out… JUST over a third of the country’s most powerful Asians work in the…
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6 November
Bird Bites: Theatre – Anjana Vasan award nomination; ‘Life of Pi’ awards; Esh Alladi win; Women’s ‘Objections to war’; Black theatre Eclipse leadership changes; Madani Younis – Diversity in peril?; Michael Billington stepping down
ANJANA VASAN who was the star of the recent Tanika Gupta Ibsen adaptation of ‘A Doll’s House’ has been nominated…
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5 November
‘Ghost Quartet’ (review): Spirits lose force as they take on too much, but production has charm and quality…
by Momtaz Begum-Hossain Freewheeling musical has its merits but tries too hard to impress… CONCEPT-WISE, David Malloy’s ‘Ghost Quartet’ couldn’t…
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Oct- 2019 -31 October
‘When the crows visit’ (review) – powerful play highlights price of both casual and brutal misogyny…
India may be the setting but there are universal truths in this… By Sailesh Ram DARK and intense, ‘When the…
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29 October
‘When the crows visit’ – playwright talks misogyny, power relations and morality as premiere hits London
How much conflict can there be between a son and a mother who knows her offspring has erred and seriously…
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25 October
Hanif Kureishi: ‘I want to write for the stage’ again says writer whose adaptation of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ continues to make impact with audiences coming to it again and afresh…
He started in the theatre but has more recently written essays, think pieces, novels and screenplays… ONE OF BRITAIN’S most…
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16 October
The Stories We Tell – Four lions tell it as it is…Tanika Gupta, Nish Kumar, Vinay Patel and Nikesh Shukla on representation, diversity and writing freely…
Top talent covers a lot of ground including the Booker, Brexit divisions and Dr Who… By Sailesh Ram IN A…
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3 October
‘A Doll’s House’ – powerful and insightful Tanika Gupta adaptation turns Ibsen classic into play about exotica, race and power…
Makeover pits colonialism against feminism… By Suman Bhuchar THIS is a very popular play written by the Norwegian great (Henrik)…
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Sep- 2019 -19 September
Theatre to stimulate – from musical ‘Stardust’ to a stage version of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ it’s time to go inside and watch something live…
We will be looking in more detail at these plays in reviews and interviews soon… by Suman Bhuchar AH, THE…
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5 September
‘Saraswati: Forgotten Daughter of Taansen’ – Roots of Indian classical musical tradition dramatised in new work
A relatively new UK-based outfit is developing a new – and different – kind of musical theatre in Britain… By…
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