Ayahs, lascars and munshis: staging The Empress
It was over four years ago that I was commissioned by Michael Boyd, then artistic director of the RSC, to write a play which I had vaguely pitched to him as "a costume drama set in the nineteenth century with Asians running around in it". And here we are, finally, about to open an epic and ambitious play set over the last 14 years of Queen Victoria's reign. read more
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