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Nandita Ghose

NANDITA GHOSE

  
Nationality:    British
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Nandita Ghose is a poet, playwright and artist. She has written plays for stage, radio and TV, including the acclaimed Bhangra Girls which made television history as the first TV drama in the UK to feature a female Asian cast. Her BBC radio series Oxford Road won a Sony in 2005. Her poetry has been published in magazines including Magma, the Wolf, and X-Press. She won The Edinburgh Fringe Festival Award for funniest poem for her poem, "This Nose" and was short-listed in 2008 for the Bridport Prize with her poem "Strange Fruit". She has performed in numerous venues in London including the Poetry Café, Angel Poetry, and the Arcola Theatre. Her most recent reading was a New Audiences event for Poet in the City. Her performance, "Mrs Whippy Serves it Up" which combines poetry, surreal sculptural costumes, and real ice cream was premiered in 2008. She has run poetry and drama workshops for children and adults. Nandita combines humour, wit, rhythm and musicality to make hard hitting observations about society today. She also explores her dual heritage of being Indian and English in her poetry.

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

         Awaaz-Voice         Bhangra Girls         Grandpa's Jinn         Ishtar Descends         Land

Awaaz-Voice

Synopsis:
Many children in Britain grow up speaking two or more languages, but most education and theatre takes place exclusively in English. Awaaz-Voice is a specially commissioned play in Bengali, Punjabi and English which interweaves music, dance, drama and poetry.

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M6 Theatre Group

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Bhangra Girls

Synopsis:
four women set up a bhangra band explores differences over their work and their sexuality as British Asians

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1st Produced:
London    1989

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Grandpa's Jinn

Synopsis:
A chance meeting between two young friends and a mischievous pair of storytellers leads to an unexpected journey of discovery in this delightful story. Using dance, music and visual spectacle, this play will be suitable for young people who speak one or all of the languages used. The play is presented in Sylheti, Punjabi and English.

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M6 Theatre Group

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Kids' Show

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Ishtar Descends

Synopsis:
uses the Suzerain myth of goddess retrieving her consort as metaphor for the crisis of a modern woman

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1st Produced:
Albany Empire, London    -

Organisations:
Second wave

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in Second Wave Plays: Women at the albany empire ed.Frances Gray, Sheffield: Sheffield academic Press, 1990   -

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Land

Synopsis:
three young peoples fight to save a piece of dockland from developers

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1st Produced:
London    1988

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