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Hedda review – Ibsen transposed to world of pencil moustaches and tea dresses

Orange Tree theatre, LondonTanika Gupta’s forthright reimagining of a classic illuminates the racial politics and middle class assumptions of the period

The Guardian - UK

Hedda at the Orange Tree Theatre: 'Super-smart but lacks tension'

3/5 Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is reimaged in Chelsea in the 40s, with Pearl Chanda’s title character an Anglo-Indian actress denying her heritage

Evening Standard

A Tupperware of Ashes review: Muddled Alzheimer’s play is well-acted, but a tough slog

Tanika Gupta’s play follows a mother whose mind is disintegrating as her children rally around

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‘If audiences are crying, I’ve done my job’: closing the stories of a generation of British south Asians

Actors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers

The Guardian - UK

The Empress at the Lyric Hammersmith review: fantastic actors can’t stop a fascinating subject falling flat

There’s a lot of history to cover here, and this retelling falls too often into the trap of obviousness

Evening Standard

Great Expectations: new theatrical adaptation sets Dickens novel in partition-era Bengal

We set eyes on Pip, the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel Great Expectations, for the first time in the churchyard where his parents and brothers are buried. The vision of the boy in front of the ruins of his family is one of rude survivalism. It’s a trait that…

The Conversation

The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review

Pip becomes Pipli in Tanika Gupta’s colonial Indian take on Dickens; Caroline Quentin and daughter are a dream team in April De Angelis’s Emma Hamilton romp; and Polly Stenham’s 2007 debut hits home in a devastating revival

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Great Expectations review – Bengal in 1905 is tailor-made for Dickens

Tanika Gupta brings authority and nuance to her adaptation, exploring class, colonialism, partition and invasion – and finding unexpected resonance

The Guardian - UK

The Empress review – resonant survival tales of Victorian Britain

Tanika Gupta’s historical drama has only got more relevant since 2013, but there’s an awful lot of migration stories to get through in three hours

The Guardian - UK

It’s time for theatres to stop ghosting the playwrights they have commissioned

Dramatists are increasingly being strung along and ignored. We must act now to save the UK’s great playwriting culture

The Guardian - UK

Exam board adds new plays by writers of colour to drama GCSE and A-Level

The Empress by Tanika Gupta among new additions in attempt to diversify AQA’s offering for drama students in England

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