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The Wrong Gods review – absorbing drama tackles dark chapter in India’s history
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney; then heading to MelbourneCounting and Cracking creator S Shakthidharan uses family…
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Japanese kabuki actor gets suspended sentence for assisting parents’ suicide
Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accus…
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Japanese kabuki actor found collapsed at home alongside parents
Ennosuke Ichikawa taken to hospital but mother and father died after taking overdoseThe world of Japanese kabu…
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I never saw plays about people like me on Australian stages. Writing my own has shown me a good story connects with everyone | Saman Shad
Audiences appreciate seeing a difference slice of life and will lose themselves in the story – you just need t…
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Silence review – a potent and poetic telling of the partition of India
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe stage adaptation of Kavita Puri’s extraordinary oral history project is at times s…
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‘Will Boris drive a tuk-tuk this time?’ … a comedian relives Johnson’s last hilarious India visit
In 2012, he gurned his way around Mumbai on a tiny bike, baffling everyone except the Indian elite, who adore …
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Shakespeare Wallah: Merchant Ivory’s bittersweet tale of Bollywood and the Bard
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industr…
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Indian theatre festival forced to close after Hindu vigilantes object to satirical plays
Bajrang Dal hardliners in Madhya Pradesh threaten violence over plays ‘disrespectful to the Indian flag’Rightw…
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The Nepalese play letting the crowd reimagine the ending – and their lives
Familiar issues of discrimination and child marriage are being taken to the stage through interactive theatre …
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A revolution is sweeping through Japan’s Takarazuka Music School
This month the school scrapped several longstanding and unwritten rules that governed the behaviour of student…
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Historic Uzbekistan theatre under threat from developers
The independent Ilkhom theatre in Tashkent opened under Soviet rule in 1976A cherished independent theatre in …
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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…