A Doll's House - Plays for Young People Synopsis
Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.
Tanika Gupta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race.
This edition is published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series, aimed specifically at students aged 16-18 to perform and study.
A Preview of A Doll's House is available here.
You might also be interested in the Student Edition of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781350261075 |
| Publication date: |
29th April 2021 |
| Author: |
Tanika Gupta |
| Publisher: |
Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
104 pages |
| Series: |
Plays for Young People |
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Tanika Gupta Press Reviews
Moving, multilayered and intelligent. - Guardian
Gupta is gutsy with her rewrite. The first half, in particular, may have characters corresponding to Ibsen but is far more concerned with giving a sense of the Raj as it was in the high Victorian era. - Time Out, London
Fitfully fascinating and eventually mesmerising adaptation. - The Times
About Tanika Gupta
Tanika Gupta was born in London the year after her parents arrived from Calcutta. Over 20 years, she has written over 20 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.
She has taught drama and run workshops in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, India, USA, the Netherlands, Germany, Argentina, Chile and across the UK. She is a fellow of Rose Bruford College, runs courses for the Arvon Foundation and has led playwriting workshops in many UK universities, as well as for the National, Royal Court, Hampstead and Young Vic theatres and Theatre Royal Stratford East.
She has been writer-in-residence at the National Theatre and Soho Theatre, a fellow at the Playwright's Studio in Glasgow and a writing tutor in HMP Winchester. She has won numerous awards for her work and is presently a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Some of her theatre credits include: A Doll's House (Lyric Hammersmith) Red Dust Road - adaptation of Jackie Kay's memoir (NT Scotland) ; Bones (Central School for Speech and Drama) Hobson's Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange); Lions And Tigers (Globe Theatre. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2018); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck Theatre); Anita and Me (Birmingham Rep); Love N Stuff (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Empress (Royal Shakespeare Company); Wah! Wah! Girls - A British Bollywood Musical (Sadler's Wells).
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