Tanika Gupta Archives

Cast. (Photo: Ellie Kurttz)

REVIEW: The Empress, RSC Lyric Hammersmith (2023)

Post author:Brian Clover
Post published:17 October 2023
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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150 Years of Indians in Britain ""They are gossiping about us? At our age? How entertaining." Queen Victoria Cast. (Photo: Ellie Kurttz) Tanika Gupta tells four stories in her play “to…

Paul Bazeley as Mohandas Gandhi and Shubham Saraf as Nathuram Godse (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Father and the Assassin, Olivier Theatre (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:30 May 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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The Man Who Killed Gandhi "Gandhi is diluting our culture"Nathuram Godse Paul Bazeley as Mohandas Gandhi and Shubham Saraf as Nathuram Godse (Photo: Marc Brenner) I have seen two other…

Esh Alladi (Photo by Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: Out West, Lyric Hammersmith (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:24 June 2021
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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Out West is a collection of three one actor plays by three renowned playwrights, linked by each play illustrating differing aspects of racism and alluding to the area where the Lyric Theatre is today. One is about a mixed race marriage, one about a black woman's fight for self esteem and one about a law student from overseas arriving in Britain in the reign of Queen Victoria.