A Doll's House

Tanika Gupta author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:29th Apr '21

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Tanika Gupta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism in a new edition specifically for young people to perform and study.

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.

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 *

ISBN: 9781350261075

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 98g

104 pages