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LOLITA CHAKRABARTI
Nationality: British
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Winner of the 2012 Most Promising Playwright Evening Standard award, Lolita Chakrabarti is a British actress and writer who has worked extensively on stage and screen. Her most recent theatre credits include The Great Game, Afghanistan for The Tricycle, Last Seen - Joy for the Almeida, Free Outgoing for the Royal Court and John Gabriel Borkman for the Donmar Warehouse. Her screen credits include Vera, Outnumbered, Hustle, Extras, Christmas Special, Holby City, Silent Witness, Amnesia, William and Mary, Fortysomething, Bodies, and Forgiven. She also played WPC Jamila Blake in the long running ITV drama The Bill. Writing credits include The Goddess for Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, Faith, Hope and Blue Charity, also on BBC Radio 4 and Last Seen - Joy for Slung Low and the Almeida. In 2012, her Red Velvet was the first play performed under the Tricycle's new artistic director Indhu Rubasingham.
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Joy Last Seen Performance About Relating, A Red Velvet Romeo and JulietJoy
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In any one year over 200,000 people go missing. Most are found. enter a world of those who have fallen through the cracks, a place for the unnoticed, a place where lost souls crash land. Last Seen takes audiences on a multi-sensory journey from the stage of the almeida onto the streets of Islington. Seating will not always be available, so comfortable shoes and attire appropriate for the weather are recommended.
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part of Last Seen. Writers Simon Burt, Lolita Chakrabarti And Matthew David Scott have worked with the company in the creation of the show.
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Slung Low
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In any one year over 200,000 people go missing. Most are found. Enter a world of those who have fallen through the cracks, a place for the unnoticed and a place where lost souls land.
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Last Seen takes audiences on a multi-media journey from the stage of the Almeida onto the streets of Islington. Written by Simon Burt, Lolita Chakrabarti and Matthew David Scott.
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Top of PagePerformance About Relating, A
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Top of PageRed Velvet
In a theatre dressing room in Poland, an elderly and sick Aldridge prepares to play King Lear. The intrusion of a young female journalist forces him to look back on the defining moment of his illustrious career. Thirty years previously, Edmund Kean, one of the greatest actors of his generation, collapses on the Theatre Royal stage in London, and Pierre Laporte, theatre manager and friend, asks Aldridge to replace him as Othello. At the same time Parliament is preparing to vote in favour of abolishing slavery in all British colonies. Opinions are fiercely divided. The American-born Aldridge performs successfully at the Theatre Royal but the reactions of the cast and critics are complex and divisive. He is not allowed to fulfil his engagement and the betrayal of a dear friend changes the course of his life.
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Methuen Drama
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2014) >>> 978-0573703225
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2014) >>> 978-0573703225
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Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: with doubling
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Set in the enticing Skamania/New Wave era of the 80s, against a back-drop of youth unemployment and economic recession, award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Red Velvet) has adapted Shakespeare's beloved tragedy to thrilling effect.
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Original Playwright - Shakespeare
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National Youth Theatre
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adaptation
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Male: 10 Female: 5 Other: -
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