Two Billion Beats Archives

Ayesha Dharker as Cheilam (Photo: Isha Shah/Akhila Krishnan)

REVIEW: Chasing Hares, Young Vic (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:26 July 2022
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Oppressed Workers from West Bengal to the UK Prab "Every other woman he met - every other woman in those fields, had had a hysterectomy. . . .women in their…

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…

Safiyya Ingar as Asha and Anoushka Chadha as Bettina (Photo: Alex Brenneer)

REVIEW: Two Billion Beats, Orange Tree Theatre (2022) RETURNING January 2023

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:15 February 2022
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Two British Asian sisters, both are at secondary school, one nearing the end and looking at university entrance to SOAS and the other, younger and hoping to buy a pet hamster. The elder girl Asha (Safiyya Ingar) is studying hard and getting involved in political history; the younger Bettina (Anoushka Chadha) is being bullied on the bus home from school. The playwright of Two Billion Beats, Sonali Bhattacharyya is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and is under contract currently to the Almeida Theatre and The Kiln.