An Ayah’s Tale – Conversation with playwright/writer, Tanika Gupta, on her new play
The Empress, written by Tanika Gupta, is set in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and tells the story of the sixteen-year-old Rani Das, ayah (nursemaid) to an English family, who arrives at Tilbury docks after a long voyage from India, to start a new life in Britain. On the boat, Rani befriends […]
