Shreya’s first play ‘Quiet’ in London News

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The UK’s longest established Asian, black and ethnically diverse-led theatre company has a new season under its new artistic director. Tara Theatre plans to return to its activist roots, with politically- charged, innovative theatre on stage, in the form of ‘2020’, a collection of monologues about the challenges of the past year. The monologues are by writers including playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya and the first Indian woman to write an international opera, Shreya Sen-Handley. They explore a range of issues as far-ranging as Trump’s America to Liverpool FC winning their 19th top flight title, the PPE scandal for care workers, and the plight of an autistic son and mother learning about themselves in the quiet of the lockdown.

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Shreya’s play ‘Quiet’ premieres at award-winning Tara Theatre, London, sharing a stage with Hanif Kureishi

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“Tara Theatre is the UK’s longest established Asian, Black and ethnically diverse led theatre company…The new works come from writers Hassan Abdulrazzak, Shahid Iqbal Khan, BBC Words finalist Amina Atiq, Erinn Dhesi, Reginald Edmund, Carlo Kureishi, Hanif Kureishi, Asif Khan, Yuqun Fan, Abhishek Majumdar, Sumerah Srivastav, Sonali Bhattacharyya (Winner of Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award) and Shreya Sen-Handley (recently announced as the first Indian woman to pen an international opera).”

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Families love stunning show ‘Migrations’ too, co-written by Shreya Sen-Handley: Weston Super Mum reviews Welsh National Opera’s 2022 production

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“The highlight was definitely the Indian Doctors, written by Shreya Sen-Handley, for a few reasons: the dancing and the change in style of the music with the addition of the sitar, the dark humour in the story, and the fact that (despite the darkness) this was one of the few lighter, more hopeful scenes in the production with the small glimpse of redemption and hope offered by the end of the scene…”

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Six brilliant writers, including Shreya Sen-Handley, at the forefront of this collaborative giant: Opera Wire warmly reviews Welsh National Opera’s ‘Migrations’

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“Conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren, director Sir David Pountney, composer and jazz pianist Will Todd, and six brilliant librettists were at the forefront of the collaborative giant…

This work represents revolutionary operatic theater, using six librettists, two composers, four directors, and an appreciably large team of dedicated individuals and creatives. It could very well reframe how opera is created going forward. Instead of utilizing a singular story or plot, a unique “theme” drew each of the six meta-narratives together and helped form a cohesive parable told from multiple angles….

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The Guardian and Observer impressed by Welsh National Opera’s “captivating” ‘Migrations’, co-written by Shreya Sen-Handley

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“Take six stories, six librettists, an enormous cast including children and set it all to music. Stir vigorously. Add a flock of small birds, flapping, dancing and singing in search of their breeding ground. With an interlocking narrative crisscrossing history, from the pilgrim fathers to Bollywood, Enoch Powell’s rivers of blood speech and Indian doctors in the NHS of the 1960s, the African Caribbean slave trade in 18th-century Bristol, a new oil pipeline in rural Canada, English lessons for refugees and, for good measure, a space rocket, Welsh National Opera’s Migrations could have been an unholy mess. At its world premiere at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff, on Wednesday, it was anything but. Continue reading →