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Lolita Chakrabarti OBE (born 1 June 1969) is a British actress and writer. [1] [2] Early life. Chakrabarti was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, to Bengali Hindu parents from India on 1 June 1969. She grew up in Birmingham, where her father worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital. [2] Career. Acting.
Mar 29, 2023 · Culture | Drama queen. Lolita Chakrabarti is one of theatre’s most sought-after adaptors. The playwright has brought two prizewinning novels, “Life of Pi” and “Hamnet”, to the stage....
Jun 28, 2019 · Playwright Lolita Chakrabarti on how to stage the impossible. The actor/playwright talks about taking on ‘Life of Pi’. Lolita Chakrabarti at the Rambert Dance Company in London © Leo Goddard....
Apr 12, 2022 · Writer and director Lolita Chakrabarti picked up the prize for Best New Play at the prestigious Laurence Olivier theatre awards 2022 for her stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Life of Pi.
Apr 14, 2023 · Speaking with one of theatre's most in demand writers, Nina asks Lolita about her latest stage adaptation of the novel Hamnet, with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon before ...
Jul 13, 2023 · When Lolita Chakrabarti set out to adapt Yann Martel’s best-selling novel Life of Pi into a stage work, she approached it with a sense of play. And not just because the show was going to...
Mar 31, 2023 · Lolita Chakrabarti. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi is left stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors — a hyena, a zebra, an...
Jun 22, 2019 · Playwright and actor Lolita Chakrabarti was born in Hull in 1969. In 2012, she was named most promising playwright at the Evening Standard awards for Red Velvet, which later transferred to the...
CV: Lolita Chakrabarti. Born: 1969, Hull Training: RADA Landmark productions: The Great Game: Afghanistan, actor (2009), Red Velvet, playwright (2012), The Casual Vacancy, actor (2015)
Feb 15, 2021 · Lolita Chakrabarti’s play Hymn begins at a funeral where two men meet, and begin to form a remarkable bond. Lolita discusses her play that uses music and dance to chart the developing bond ...
