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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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A five-hour play, 4,000 years in the making: India’s epic Mahabharata arrives in Australia
The world’s oldest surviving poem is a ‘tragically relevant’ tale of vengeance to rival Game of Thrones, with …
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‘Punching up against colonialism is glorious!’ The unstoppable rise of Indian comedy in the UK
Standup has enjoyed a rapid rise in India over the last decade, and now its leading lights are conquering the …
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‘She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist
Saalumarada Thimmakka’s story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about…
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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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Sindhu Vee and her father go back in time: ‘As a child, I was always copying him’
The comedian and her dad recreate a childhood photo and talk about early days in India, agoraphobia and swappi…
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‘Drag is political’: the pioneering Indian event uniting art and activism
Artists from traditional communities and new wave performers to come together online for the country’s first d…
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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…