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Lions and Tigers (Paperback)
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Lions and Tigers (Paperback)
Series: Modern Classics
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Loot Price R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
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"Tanika Gupta's epic drama pushes the boundaries of verbatim
theatre, telling an important story in a fresh and authentic way
never seen on stage before. A rousing piece of work." - Greg
Walker, University of Edinburgh, UK Based on the true story of
Tanika Gupta's great uncle, Lions and Tigers follows 19-year-old
Dinesh Gupta's emotional and political awakening as a freedom
fighter pitting himself against the British Raj. Drawn from family
stories that the playwright herself heard from early childhood, the
play teems with details drawn from her grandfather's 500-page
handwritten journal about his younger brother, and from the 92
letters written by her great uncle from his prison cell. Set
against the backdrop of negotiations between the leaders of the
Indian National Congress and culminating in actions that shook the
very foundations of the British Empire, Lions and Tigers challenges
our assumptions about Indian independence and offers powerful new
insights into the battles between the British lions and the Bengal
tigers. The play was first performed at Shakespeare's Globe from
the 23rd August to 16th September 2017, and was awarded the James
Tait Black Prize for Drama in 2018. It is published here in Methuen
Drama's Modern Classics series for the first time, with a brand new
introduction by Durba Ghosh.
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