I’m very excited to say I’ve been commissioned by world-class theatre pioneers TARA ARTS to write a new play about the Indigo Revolt in 1859/60. The revolt, also known as the ‘Blue Mutiny’, erupted in Bengal in response to terrible exploitation by British Indigo planters, and also inspired the writing of one of the most devastating and effective pieces of political theatre in history. NEEL DARPAN, by Dinabondhu Mitra. The play will be a response to and conversation with that play, and explore the legacy of Indigo cultivation in Bengal today…

I grew up in Bangladesh and India, and this project feels like a return to my ‘second home’. And on that note, I’m also very proud to say that the Royal Society of Literature have awarded me a Brookleaze Grant to travel to Bangladesh and India to research the play.