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Sonali Bhattacharyya

SONALI BHATTACHARYYA

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  

Sonali Bhattacharyya has written extensively for the BBC, including commissions for eastenders, Holby City, Doctors and Casualty. She has written for the Afternoon Play and Woman's Hour on Radio Four and numerous episodes for Silver Street on the BBC Asian Network. Her Theatre commissions include A Thin Red Line for Kali Theatre, the Birmingham Rep and Black Country Touring, these Four Streets for the Birmingham Rep, and the South Bank Show Award nominated White Open Spaces for Pentabus Theatre Company. She's currently working on a new screenplay for eyeline Productions and a radio play for the BBC.

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below is a list of Sonali Bhattacharyya's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         These Four Streets         Thin Red Line         Twelve         Two Men In the Fog

These Four Streets

Synopsis:
In October 2005 the rumour of a rape sparked disturbances in Lozells, Birmingham, that led to the killing of one man, widespread damage and a fracture between two communities that had previously appeared to be living happily alongside one another. Inspired by the views, hopes and fears of local people connected to or affected by the disturbances, these Four Streets is an engaging and hopeful play that highlights a community's fight to stay together. a collaboration between six young female writers, these Four Streets explores the power of rumour and what it's like to live in a place that has been written off.

Notes:
written by Naylah Ahmed, Sonali Bhattacharyya, Jennifer Farmer, Lorna French, Amber Lone And Cheryl Akila Payne

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company

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Thin Red Line

Synopsis:
Is solidarity now unfashionable? If so, could partition ever happen here? Has it already started? How could we stop it happening? Reflecting a real slice of life in the Black Country, Thin Red Line explores the long-term effect of Partition on the communities of the Indian sub-continent in Britain today.

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Organisations:
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Black Country Touring and Kali Theatre

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Twelve

Synopsis:
Twelve touching and sometimes humorous monologues inspired by true stories about friendship, first love, defiance, death and survival. Twelve is a creative response to the shocking statistic that on average twelve women are killed in the UK every year by family members in so-called 'honour based violence'. Twelve writers have created a unique theatre event to highlight this all-too-common issue and to give a voice to those who have tragically lost their lives. The stories are interwoven with modern dance, expressing the freedom of the women's spirit and the conflict between cultural tradition and modernity.

Notes:
Written by Sonali Bhattacharyya, Sharmila Chauhan, Satinder Chohan, Azma Dar, Tanika Gupta, Bettina Gracias, Sayan Kent, Yasmeen Khan, Anu Kumar, Amber Lone, Nessah Muthy and Yasmin Whittaker-Khan. Inspired by True Stories

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Kali Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Two Men In the Fog

Synopsis:
in 2004 Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission for Racial equality, asked if the countryside is guilty of a "passive apartheid". Pentabus, BBC Radio Drama and nine writers spent a week in Shropshire exploring this question. these plays are the result. . .

Notes:
part of White Open Spaces - seven plays About race And belonging in the countryside

1st Produced:
Courtyard Theatre, Hereford     2006

Organisations:
Pentabus Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
Short Monologue One act

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