3: Sonali Bhattacharyya

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The Next Act: British South Asian Playwrights

The Next Act

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The Next Act is a podcast series spotlighting the voices shaping the future of British South Asian theatre. Each episode centres on a conversation with a single playwright, examining their creative process alongside the political, personal, and artistic forces that inform their work. Presented by Shiroma Silva, Rukhsana Ahmad and Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal. Supported and funded by the Drama Department and the Centre for Public Engagement at Queen Mary, University of London. www.thenextact.co.uk

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3: Sonali Bhattacharyya

The Next Act: British South Asian Playwrights

47 minutes 24 seconds

5 months ago

3: Sonali Bhattacharyya

In episode 3, we speak to playwright and screenwriter Sonali Bhattacharyya about her plays Chasing Hares and King Troll (The Fawn).

Sonali is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers’ Group, the inaugural Old Vic 12, and was also a Channel 4 Writer in Residence at the Orange Tree. Her play Chasing Hares (2022) performed at the Young Vic, is the story of a factory worker in West Bengal who is recruited to write a play. He seizes the opportunity to expose the injustice of the factory conditions, but in his fight for justice he risks his entire life and the life of his family. It won the Sonia Friedman Production Award and Theatre Uncut’s Political Playwriting Award. In addition, her play King Troll (The Fawn) (2024), is the story of two migrant sisters navigating the authoritarian immigration system in dramatically different ways, it was nominated for two Offie Awards, and made her a finalist for the Woman’s Prize for Playwriting.