Tanika Gupta on The Empress

Text of the day: “Writers’ Building in Calcutta is where the English clerks all sit, writing their tax demands that impoverish our people and where they legitimatise their stra...

You’d think that there is no more to be said about George Bernard Shaw.

This week, I also saw Atiha Sen Gupta’s What Fatima Did… at the Hampstead Theatre.

Facts of the day: Posh played to 100 per cent capacity at the Royal Court in 2010 and remains one of the highest-grossing shows ever to play in the theatre.