The first performance in The Space at the new premises of the Hampstead Theatre, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants. The pressure to stick to their own kind proves a tough call for two teenage Asian schoolgirls in this fresh, engaging portrayal of a London very different to the one first encountered by their parents. Fragile Land reveals the complexities of life for a new generation of young Londoners...

About Tanika Gupta

Tanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Her stage plays include Voices in the Wind, Skeleton, On the Coach with Enoch, Sanctuary (published by Oberon Books) and The Waiting Room, which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's The Good Woman of Sezuan and adapted Gita Mehta's A River Sutra.

Additional information

Sku

GOR005635965

ISBN 13

9781840023671

ISBN 10

1840023678

Title

Fragile Land by Tanika Gupta

Author

Tanika Gupta

Series

Oberon Modern Plays

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

20040401

Number of pages

Prizes

N/A

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