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BremanRajkumar
Breman Rajkumar (2005-2010)
has
enjoyed a spectacular start to his career in
theatre. He has won the Directors’ Guild
Award for Best New Director and the Sunday
Times Playwriting Award at the National
Student Drama Festival 2013 for his new
comedy,
The Babysitter
. The play, by his
theatre collective InDepth, centres around a
family with a young child suffering from epilepsy. The play will
soon start a run at the new Diorama Theatre in Great Portland
Street, having recently gone down a storm at the Edinburgh
Fringe. While there, they were listed in the ‘Top 10 shows to see at
the Pleasance Courtyard by
Fringe Review
, received a couple of 4
star reviews from Broadway Baby and Three Weeks magazine as
well as selling over half of their performances in the Courtyard’
– an unheard of feat for first time companies at the Fringe. They
also received the following praise at the Fringe:
‘sparky dialogue and intriguing characters.’
(The Scotsman)
‘The Babysitter becomes a play that matters more than just an
hour of comic or farcical interactions. Its lighthearted relief is
its draw, but it’s the depth that will make you glad you went.’
(The Skinny)
‘meticulous depiction of middle-class dynamics...It’s still
a rarity to come across even one strong, female character
from today’s emerging writers, let alone three...it stands out
as a perfect example of teaching, disguised and made more
effective through drama.’
(Ed Fest Mag)
‘The script is dazzling...it is also incredibly funny.’
(Broadway Baby)
‘Breman Rajkumar, a new Joe Orton if ever I saw one...
Rajkumar takes dangerous risks with plot, language,
performance and taste that make you hoot with delight.’
(Robert Hewison, NSDF13 Report)
‘Breman Rajkumar is a writer to watch.’
(British Theatre Guide)
‘writer/director Breman Rajkumar has an ear for dialogue that
already demands respect’
(A Younger Theatre)
‘Redemptive, warm theatre delivered with truth...Fabulously
vibrant and genuinely witty...One of the best scripts out there’
(Noises OMagazine)
