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Tanika Gupta MBE FRSL (born 1 December 1963) is a British playwright. Apart from her work for the theatre, she has also written scripts for television, film and radio plays . Early life. Tanika Gupta was born in London to immigrant parents from Kolkata, India, [1] where her family had their origins. [2] .
About - Tanika Gupta. Over the past 25 years Tanika has written over 25 stage plays that have been produced in major theatres across the UK. She has written 30 radio plays for the BBC and several original television dramas, as well as scripts for EastEnders, Grange Hill and The Bill.
May 28, 2021 · Playwright Tanika Gupta on her new drama about young Gandhi in London. ‘The Overseas Student’ tells the story of a shy young man in search of knowledge — and vegetarian food. Playwright...
A Doll’s House. Tanika Gupta transposes the setting of Ibsen’s classic play to India in 1879 where ‘Nora’, now Niru, is an Indian woman married to ‘Torvald’, now Tom, an English man working for the British Colonial Administration in Calcutta. Niru risks her own reputation in order to save her husband’s and in the process discovers herself.
Tanika Gupta was born in 1963 in Chiswick, and is a British playwright of Bengali origin. She read modern history at Oxford University, then worked for an Asian Women's Refuge in Manchester and as a community worker in London while beginning to write.
Mar 26, 2013 · Rewriting history The Empress Writer Tanika Gupta explains why her new play, about Asians in Britain, was personal for her. The Empress plays in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 11...
The Empress follows characters from all walks of life, interweaving their stories and looking at the personal and the political relationships of India and Britain in the heyday of British colonial rule – Tanika Gupta in The Arts Desk.
