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Tanika Gupta: Political Plays Tanika Gupta

Tanika Gupta: Political Plays By Tanika Gupta

Tanika Gupta: Political Plays by Tanika Gupta


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One of the most consistently interesting and insightful playwrights working today, Political Plays shows an engagement with, and unravelling of, social conventions, gender stereotyping, and racial politics with a blistering wit. Plays includes Sugar Mummies, White Boy, Sanctuary and Gladiator Games, with an introduction by Aleks Sierz.

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Tanika Gupta: Political Plays Summary

Tanika Gupta: Political Plays: Gladiator Games; White Boy; Sanctuary; Sugar Mummies by Tanika Gupta

The first collection of plays by acclaimed British dramatist Tanika Gupta includes Sugar Mummies, White Boy, Sanctuary and Gladiator Games. Refusing to be pigeonholed as an 'Asian playwright', Gupta has a fresh perspective on race relations, generational divide and sexual politics. A National Youth Theatre production, White Boy attempts to make sense of school-age stabbings and the nature of inner city white identity, in an increasingly complex racial landscape. In Sugar Mummies, the gender politics of the sex trade are inverted as wealthy white women flock to the Carribean to take advantage of the native toy-boys. But who is exploiting who? On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahib Mubarek was attacked and killed by his racist cellmate. Gladiator Games is a verbatim drama that documents the Mubarek family's pursuit of the truth and the incompetence of the official response. In Sanctuary a London churchyard becomes a haven for the gardener Kabir. When a photo of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds.

Tanika Gupta: Political Plays Reviews

Raises fascinating questions about the differences between male and female sexuality and the relationship between the developed and the developing world * Independent on Sugar Mummies *
A dynamo of a play - an exuberant tragedy * Observer on White Boy *
I admire Gupta for using the stage to rub our noses in global reality * Guardian on Sanctuary *
A work of real political importance; painful to witness, but entirely essential * The Times on Gladiator Games *

About Tanika Gupta

Tanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. She was the winner of both the John Whiting Award for her play The Waiting Room and the winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre for Fragile Land/Hobson's Choice (2004). Tanika is an Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008 for Services to Drama.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Aleks Sierz 9 Gladiator Games 17 White Boy 99 Sanctuary 159 Sugar Mummies 253

Additional information

CIN1849432473VG
9781849432474
1849432473
Tanika Gupta: Political Plays: Gladiator Games; White Boy; Sanctuary; Sugar Mummies by Tanika Gupta
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20120501
360
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