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Tanika Gupta MBE FRSL (born 1 December 1963) 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] .
About - Tanika Gupta. Over the past 25 years Tanika has written over 25 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.
Directed by Pooja Ghai, Artistic Director of Tamasha, Tanika Gupta’s The Empress took audiences from the rugged gangways of Tilbury docks to the grandeur of Queen Victoria’s Palace, whilst unveiling the long and embedded culture of British Asian history.
The Empress is a 2013 play by Tanika Gupta, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and premiered in Stratford upon Avon. It is now on the GCSE curriculum.
Tanika Gupta's play explores the relationship between three characters - Queen Victoria, Abdul Karim her servant and Rani Das an Indian nanny. The Empress begins in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, when Rani Das and Abdul Karim step ashore onto London's Tilbury Docks after a long voyage from India.
Tanika Gupta tells us the inspirations behind the stories in her play The Empress. My own parents travelled to the United Kingdom from the city of Calcutta in recently independent India (1947) in 1961 in their early twenties and myself and my younger brother were both born here.
The Empress follows characters from all walks of life, interweaving their stories and looking at the personal and the political relationships of India and Britain in the heyday of British colonial rule – Tanika Gupta in The Arts Desk.
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