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'Words and stories can be dangerous': playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya on radical history by Kate Wyver

Sonali Bhattacharyya's Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. 'South Asian artists have always been here " but now it's our time,' she says For much of the 20th century, the grey, gargantuan Dunlop factory in Bandel, West Bengal was the main source of work for local families. But from the 1990s onwards, the factory was closed more often than it was open. "People would turn up …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM on July 18, 2022

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