The Mancunion spoke to playwright Tanika Gupta about her newest adaptation of Dickens’s Great Expectations – a re-imagining which casts new historical and political light on the literary classic

Tanika Gupta’s rendition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations kicks off the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Autumn/Winter season with an exciting Bengali twist on a British classic

Samina Ali hosted a launch event for the Royal Exchange and Tamasha’s South Asian reimagining of Charles Dickesn’ Great Expectations, with a panel made up of Pooja Ghai, Esh Alladi, and Tanika Gupta MBE FRSL