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Indhu Rubasingham

April 2024

  • Forbes Masson in Original Theatre’s Jekyll & Hyde

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more

    Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small

17 December 2023

  • Indhu Rubasingham

    A truly national theatre must get out of London more

  • Emma Rice's production of The Little Matchgirl & Happier Tales in Frome, Somerset

    The week in theatre: The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales; Cold War; Pandemonium – review

15 December 2023

  • A strng record … Indhu Rubasingham.

    Indhu Rubasingham’s National Theatre in-tray: lure megastars, deal with crises and define an era

    The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity

13 December 2023

  • Swift exit … does vision go if the AD departs?

    Strapped, stressed, axed: is it curtains for theatre’s artistic directors?

  • Indhu Rubasingham.

    ‘She will make the National Theatre truly feel national’: applause for Indhu Rubasingham appointment

  • Indhu Rubasingham.

    Indhu Rubasingham chosen as National Theatre’s next director

  • Arifa Akbar

    Indhu Rubasingham is the perfect choice for the National Theatre

    Arifa Akbar

October 2023

  • Arifa Akbar

    After 60 years, when will the biggest job in UK theatre go to a woman? Why not now?

    Arifa Akbar
  • Amit Sharma.

    London’s Kiln theatre appoints Amit Sharma as artistic director

June 2023

  • Indhu Rubasingham

    ‘Rare talent’: Kiln artistic director stands down after 10 years

    Indhu Rubasingham’s legacy includes rebrand of north London theatre and bringing culturally diverse voices to stage

December 2022

  • Fay Ripley as Kerry with Gavin Spokes as Warren in Kerry Jackson at the National Theatre, London.

    Kerry Jackson review – Fay Ripley’s lively striver is riddled with working-class cliches

    April De Angelis’s comedy about a leave-voting entrepreneur in a gentrified area has echoes of Abigail’s Party and Educating Rita – except all the characters are reduced to types

September 2022

  • A scene from Handbagged by Moira Buffini @ Kiln Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Handbagged; The Cherry Orchard; Clutch – review

    Moira Buffini’s damning satire imagining the Queen’s weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher acquires poignancy; James Macdonald directs Chekhov in outer space; and a driving lesson for us all
  • Charming … (l-r) Abigail Cruttenden, Kate Fahy, Marion Bailey and Naomi Frederick in Handbagged.

    Handbagged review – sparks fly at the Queen’s audiences with the Iron Lady

    Moira Buffini’s clever political comedy returns, educating a new generation on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy through her weekly encounters with the monarch
  • Abigail Cruttenden, front left, and Marion Bailey, back right, play the Queen in Handbagged. Naomi Frederick and Kate Fahy play the younger and older versions of Thatcher respectively.

    ‘The audience want to connect with her’: portraying the Queen after her death

    The Kiln theatre’s Handbagged, about the monarch’s meetings with Margaret Thatcher, has opened in a week of mourning. Its stars reflect on the play’s humour and their tears in rehearsal

May 2022

  • Ankur Bahl (Madhav, Kishore) Shubham Saraf (Nathuram Godse) in The Father and the Assassin at the National Theatre. Credits- Marc Brenner 825

    The week in theatre: The Father and the Assassin; Celebrated Virgins; Legally Blonde

    Gandhi’s murderer turns on the charm; the ladies of Llangollen come to vibrant life; and verdant Regent’s Park turns very pink
  • Nadeem Islam (Mithun) and Shubham Saraf (Nathuram Godse) in The Father and the Assassin at the National Theatre. Credits- Marc Brenner 9093

    The Father and the Assassin review – gripping tale of the man who killed Gandhi

    Anupama Chandrasekhar artfully unpicks the forces of history with a tale of violence and colonialism that echoes into today
  • Honoured by statues and memorials … Godse, who was hanged for the 1948 assassination.

    The celebrated assassin: the play about Gandhi’s killer, still dividing India

    Having written about sex tapes and the Delhi bus gang-rape, Anupama Chandrasekhar is tackling Nathuram Godse, the gunman who was raised as a girl – and is now a hero to Hindu nationalists

November 2021

  • Clare Perkins as Alvita, The Wife of Willesden.

    The Wife of Willesden review – Zadie Smith’s boozy lock-in is a bawdy treat

    Kiln theatre, London
    The author’s debut play lets one of Chaucer’s most revolutionary characters loose in modern-day Kilburn in a celebration of community and a life well-lived

July 2021

  • Daniel Lapaine and Tony Jayawardena in The Invisible Hand at the Kiln theatre, London.

    The Invisible Hand review – thrilling tale of money lust and morality

    A US bank employee is captured in Pakistan in Indhu Rubasingham’s pacy revival of Ayad Akhtar’s chillingly ingenious play
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