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Anupama Chandrasekhar

April 2024

  • Forbes Masson in Original Theatre’s Jekyll & Hyde

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more

    Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small

December 2023

  • Indhu Rubasingham.

    ‘She will make the National Theatre truly feel national’: applause for Indhu Rubasingham appointment

    As she is named the National Theatre’s first female director, those who have worked with Rubasingham praise her warmth, rigour and willingness to take risks

March 2023

  • Playwright Sarah Mantell

    In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot: play about ‘queer ageing and capitalism’ wins prize

    Sarah Mantell’s script awarded Susan Smith Blackburn prize, beating plays by Zadie Smith, Kimber Lee and Ruby Thomas

May 2022

  • Nadeem Islam (Mithun) and Shubham Saraf (Nathuram Godse) in The Father and the Assassin at the National Theatre. Credits- Marc Brenner 9093

    The Father and the Assassin review – gripping tale of the man who killed Gandhi

  • Honoured by statues and memorials … Godse, who was hanged for the 1948 assassination.

    The celebrated assassin: the play about Gandhi’s killer, still dividing India

October 2019

  • ‘Women grew up freer 30 years ago’ ... Anupama Chandrasekhar, writer of When the Crows Visit.

    Sex tapes and acid attacks: Anupama Chandrasekhar, the playwright shocking India

    Her dramas confront the growing horrors facing women in India today. Now she’s reworked Ibsen’s Ghosts, taking out the syphilis and putting in the Delhi bus gang rape of 2012
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