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Tanika Gupta
English playwright, born
Tanika Gupta MBE, FRSL | |
|---|---|
| Born | () 1 December (age&#;61) Chiswick, Hounslow, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Modern history |
| Alma&#;mater | Oxford University |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, screenwriter |
| Years&#;active | –present |
| Known&#;for | Theatre, television |
| Style | Drama, radio drama, screenplay |
| Spouse | David Archer &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Dinesh Chandra Gupta (maternal great uncle) |
| Website | |
Tanika GuptaMBE FRSL (born 1 December ) 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] As a child, Gupta performed Tagore dance dramas with her parents.
Her mother Gairika Gupta was an Indian classically trained dancer, and her father Tapan Gupta was a singer. The Indian revolutionary Dinesh Gupta was her great uncle.[3]
After attending Copthall Comprehensive School in London and then Mill Hill School for her A levels,[4] Gupta graduated from Oxford University with a Modern History degree.
After Oxford, her political commitment found expression in her work for an Asian women's refuge in Manchester.
In , she married David Archer an anti-poverty activist and ActionAid's current Head of Tax Justice and Public Services, whom she met at university. She and her husband then moved to London where Gupta was initially a community worker in Islington, writing in her spare time.[3]
Career
Over the past 25 years Tanika has written over 25 stage plays that have been produced in major theatres across the UK.&#;She has also written 30 radio plays for the BBC and several original television dramas, as well as scripts for EastEnders, Grange Hill and The Bill.
The Waiting Room&#;(produced for the National Theatre in ) was an early career highpoint with Indian film star Shabana Azmi performing on the stage in London for the first time.[5][6][7]
Gupta's play&#;The Empress, about&#;Abdul Karim&#;and&#;Queen Victoria&#;opened in&#;Stratford upon Avon and is now on the GCSE curriculum along with her adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House,&#;which was first performed at Hammersmith Lyric in [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Dominic Cavendish praised The Empress, saying: "This fascinating new theatre production has got 'make this into a movie' written all over it."[11]
Her play Lions and Tigers performed at the Sam Wannamaker in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre tells the remarkable story set in the s of her great uncle, Dinesh Gupta, an Indian freedom fighter.
Lions and Tigers is now published in Methuen's series of Modern Classics.[17][18][19] Praise for Lions and Tigers singled out the "intimate storytelling, where Gupta's writing is at its most playful and potent" for particular note.[19] Other notable plays include Sugar Mummies (Royal Court Theatre );[7]Gladiator Games (Sheffield Crucible Theatre );[20][21]Hobson's Choice (Young Vic and Manchester Royal Exchange ).[22][23][24][25] Her most recent productions are Mirror on the Moor (Royal Court Living Newspaper, April ), and The Overseas Student (Hammersmith Lyric, June ).[26][27][28][29]
Personal life
Gupta and her husband have two daughters, Nandini (born ), Niharika (born ), and a son Malini (born ).[3]
Works
Theatre plays
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| Voices on the Wind (NT Studio) | |
| Skeleton (Soho) | |
| A River Sutra (NT Studio / 3 Mill Island) | |
| On The Couch with Enoch (BAC) | |
| The Waiting Room (National Theatre) | |
| Sanctuary (National Theatre) | |
| Inside Out (Arcola) | |
| Hobson's Choice (Young Vic) | |
| Fragile Land (Hampstead) | |
| The Country Wife (Watford) | |
| Gladiator Games (Sheffield Crucible) | |
| Catch (Royal Court) | |
| Sugar Mummies (Royal Court) | |
| Meet The Mukherjees (Bolton Octagon) | |
| White Boy (Soho) | |
| Great Expectations (Watford) | |
| Wah Wah Girls (Saddlers Wells / Peacock Theatre) | |
| Love'N'Stuff (Stratford East) | |
| The Empress (RSC) | |
| Anita and Me (Birmingham Rep) | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (dramaturg at The Globe) | |
| Lions and Tigers (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London) | |
| A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck) | |
| Hobsons's Choice (Royal Exchange) | |
| A Doll's House (Lyric Hammersmith, London) | |
| Red Dust Road (National Theatre Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival) | |
| Hobson's Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange) | |
| Bones (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) | |
| Mirror on the Moor (Royal Court, London) | |
| The Overseas Student (Lyric Hammersmith, London) |
Radio plays
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| Asha (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Badal and his Bike (BBC Radio 5) | |
| Kiss Me Quick (BBC Radio 5) | |
| Pankhiraj (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Ananda Sananda (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Kiss Me Quick (BBC Radio 5) | |
| The Bounty Hunter (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Skeleton (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Voices On The Wind (BBC World Service) | |
| Red Oleanders (BBC Radio 3) | |
| Westway (BBC World Service) | |
| Muse of Fusion (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Coat (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Waistland (BBC Radio 4) | |
| The Queen's Retreat (BBC Radio 4) | |
| The Eternal Bubble (BBC World Service) | |
| The Secret (BBC Radio 4) | |
| The Book of Secrets (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Betrayal: The Trial of William Davidson (BBC) | |
| Stowaway (BBC) | |
| A Second Chance (BBC Radio 3) | |
| The Parting (BBC Radio 4) | |
| The God of Small Things (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Chitra (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Rudolpho's Zest (BBC Radio 3) | |
| Silver Street (BBC Asian Network) | |
| Rescue Me (BBC Radio 4) | |
| A Doll's House (BBC Radio 3) | |
| Pather Panchali (BBC Radio 4) | |
| Baby Farming (BBC Radio 3) |
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | TV film | Writer | |
| Bideshi | Short | ||
| Siren Spirits | 1 episode: "Bideshi" | ||
| The Fiancée | Short | ||
| EastEnders | 4 episodes: inc "17 January " | ||
| – | Grange Hill | 7 episodes: "", "", "", "", "", "", "" | |
| Crossroads | Unknown episodes | ||
| The Bill | 1 episode: "Complicity (Part 2)" | ||
| The Lives of Animals | TV film | Screenplay | |
| Banglatown Banquet | |||
| Non-Resident | Short | Writer | |
| Pritilata | Monologue as part of Snatches series, BBC | Writer |
Awards and recognition
In , Gupta was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the New Year Honours for her services to drama.[3][30] In June she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
In , Gupta was awarded with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama for her play Lions and Tigers.[31]
See also
References
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- ^Verma, Jatinder (12 September ).
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Shakespeare's Globe (ed.). "A passion from within: Tanika Gupta on her new play about the fight for Indian Independence". Medium.
- ^ abcdRoy, Amit (15 July ). "Hanged Bengali icon's great-niece bags MBE".
The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 February Retrieved 1 May
- ^Roberts, Alison (7 August ). "London's teenage crisis". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 20 February
- ^"Theatre is a great leveller, says Shabana Azmi".Tanika gupta biography books in order Lions and Tigers is now published in Methuen's series of Modern Classics. Henrik Ibsen ,. Tanika Gupta. References [ edit ].
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- ^"Playwright Tanika Gupta career overview".
- ^ ab"Tanika Gupta talks to Lyn Gardner about her new play". The Guardian. 25 July
- ^"The Empress". 11 June
- ^"Tanika Gupta's new RSC play sheds light on a hidden royal history".
Birmingham Mail. 19 April
- ^"The Empress &#; By Tanika Gupta". Royal Shakespeare Company.
- ^ ab"The Empress, Swan Theatre, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, review". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^"The Empress (RSC)".
WhatsOnStage. 17 April
- ^"A Doll's House review – Ibsen's classic shrewdly reimagined in colonial India". The Guardian. 12 September
- ^"Review: A Doll's House at the Lyric Hammersmith".
- ^"Review: A Doll's House (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre)".
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- ^"Lions and Tigers review: Superb central performance from Shubham Saraf". The Independent. 4 September Archived from the original on 26 May
- ^"Review: Lions and Tigers (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse)". WhatsOnStage. 30 August
- ^ ab"Lions and Tigers review – bloody epic sounds out India's young revolutionaries".
The Guardian. 30 August
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- ^"Gladiator Games , Crucible, Sheffield". The Guardian. 27 October
- ^"Hobson's Choice, Young Vic, London". The Guardian. 3 July
- ^"Theatre Review: HOBSON'S CHOICE – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester".Biography books on famous people Toggle the table of contents. Mind Walking by Tanika Gupta really liked it 4. Tools Tools. Oxford University.
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- ^"Review: Hobson's Choice at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester".
- ^"Hobson's Choice review – saris, acid house and a Salford Cinderella story". The Guardian. 6 June
- ^Sarah Hemming (28 May ).
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"Playwright Tanika Gupta on her new drama about young Gandhi in London". Financial Times.
- ^"Stream review: Living Newspaper Edition 4 at Royal Court Theatre". British Theatre Guide. 9 April
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- ^Stephen, Phyllis (20 August ). "Lions and Tigers wins the James Tait Black Prize for Drama ". .
- ^"BBC Radio 4 - BBC Audio Drama Awards, Audio Drama Awards winners - Tanika Gupta, winner of Best Adaptation from Another Source".
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