Stop Claiming Your Work is ‘Female-Led’, Just Because There’s Women In It
Alice Flynn is not happy about the flippant use of the term 'female-led' for shows that really, just aren't. Does she think a show directed by a man can ever b...
Tanika Gupta
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Review: A Doll’s House, Lyric Hammersmith
Henrik Ibsen’s original 1879 play A Doll’s House centres on Nora, and her stifling relationship with her husband Torvald. In Tanika Gupta’s re-write, the story...
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Review: Red Dust Road, HOME Manchester
Although it’s an infamous dramatic cliché, the journey of self-discovery at the heart of Jackie Kay’s 2010 autobiographical memoir is ideal for theatre. Jackie...
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Review: Hobson’s Choice, Royal Exchange Manchester
Tanika Gupta’s spirited version of Hobson’s Choice made its stage debut 16 years ago at the Young Vic. Restaged by Atri Banerjee, it is the penultimate product...
Review: Anita and Me, Theatre Royal Stratford East
The diversity of culture in Britain today is very different to the world that Anita & Me is set in; the 1970s Black Country was much less culturally rich th...