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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Thank you Chicago Shakespeare Theatre for posting this on Instagram. I wrote Red Velvet between 2007 and 2012. It was amazing to come and watch it in Chicago with Dion Johnstone leading and Gary Griffin directing. I stand by these lines completely. More now than ever! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It’s opening night at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and the US premiere of our show. Preview audiences have been wonderful - attentive and appreciative. The sterling cast, creatives and crew have worked hard to realise the play. Here’s to the start of a new adventure! 🌹🌹🌹Photos @kyleflubacker

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Back in Chicago with Hamnet. The city is beautiful. The lake has been frozen like the Thames in 1599 when Shakespeare & friends moved the theatre south & made The Globe! It’s the embodiment of a line in the play. Life makes art which reflects life. First preview tonight. Excited to share it. 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I’ve been playing Dr Alex Bridges for This Thing of Darkness for a few years. The writing is challenging & deals with murder, mental health, the stories we tell ourselves & deciphering the tragedies that ensue. I am so proud of it. Season 4 starts BBC Radio4 Tuesday at 2.15pm. Hope you like it 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Went to see a Sisters Grim Show Inala in a new space in London. It was wonderful. Up close and personal with a cast of 11 performers who filled the room with soulful sound and magnetic moves. Met the sisters who were not grim at all! A great and unique night out. Thoroughly recommend it!

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The last few performances of this extraordinary show. It’s been so much fun to play at the Barbican . My takeaways? Stories take commitment to make them live. Aiming for excellence is never disappointing. Theatre is magic because you can literally make anything happen. Thanks all. What a ride! 🙏🏽❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Just had a lovely zoom with cast of Life of Pi in Korea with Leigh Toney at the helm. Great to meet you all after you’ve done your first run in the rehearsal room. Hope you are enjoying the process and look forward to hearing all about it. 🙏🏽❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

It’s first preview tonight of this epic show at the Barbican. Tonight we take the leap from the rehearsal room to the stage. Loving being a part of it with this fine, fine cast - it is pure theatre. Wish us luck! 🙏🏽 ( photos by Marc Brenner )

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A big hello to Life of Pi Korea in rehearsals for GS Arts Centre in Seoul. Opening in December. Sending you hope, faith and joy for your journey! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Ron OJ Parson, Chiké Johnson & James Vincent Meredith are nominated for Jeff Awards for Hymn at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. They worked so hard, often pushed themselves beyond what was comfortable and made a beautiful show. The alchemy was thrilling. Bravo from London!!! ❤️🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The US cast of Life of Pi are playing open air in Kansas. Real stars everywhere! They have been on the road for almost a year. An amazing group of practitioners and stage management who I managed to catch up with along the road. Thank you for your hard work and joy. Hope the last weeks are fun. ❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Love watching Life of Pi travel the world. The Asia tour came to an end and this excellent team told the story with heart and skill. Very grateful for the skill and commitment of those on and backstage to make this happen. ❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

End of the first week of rehearsals for Wendy and Peter Pan for the RSC at the Barbican. A great team of performers, creatives and stage management to make this magical show happen. At the end of a great week we ended up in Kensington Gardens with Peter Pan himself! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The final week of Hymn at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. This wonderful team have played hard to bring Benny and Gil to life. So proud of what we made! Playing till May 25th if you’re in Chicago. ❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A year ago today I was here doing the research to set Hymn in Chicago. And now it’s opening night at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre! It’s been such a pleasure with Ron OJ Parson at the helm, James Meredith Vincent and Chike Johnson owning the stage. This isn’t work it’s play! Good luck all! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

So looking forward to being part of a panel discussion @latimes.com about adaptation, page to stage, with Robert O’Hara and Larissa Fasthorse. Just ahead of Life of Pi playing The Ahmanson Theatre. Very exciting to make these connections through storytelling. 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hymn is coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. This wonderful team are getting the play in shape. Or getting in shape for the play!! There’s a short film of rehearsals on the website - take a look. It’s filled with joy and promise. 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Excited to be able to talk about Hamnet coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in 2026. Working again with @ericawhyman.bsky.social to bring the Shakespeares to life.❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

As Life of Pi UK start their tour of Asia I am in Portland, Oregon at the Keller Auditorium with the US cast. Last night they played to 3000 people and got a standing ovation! It’s amazing to watch Pi travel across the Pacific Ocean on stage and across the world, off stage. Bon Voyage everyone! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Have had the privilege of seeing Hymn start to emerge in the rehearsal room through Chike Johnson and James Vincent Meredith’s truthful study, under the watchful eye of maestro director Ron OJ Parson. Feel very lucky indeed to have been here @chicagoshakes.bsky.social See you all soon! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

On my way to rehearse Hymn I passed a statue of Benito Juárez and it stopped me in my tracks! I have written his name many times for Life of Pi but didn’t know who he was!The play begins in the Benito Juárez Infirmary in Tomatlán Mexico. A good omen! A great day of rehearsal. Hymn is gonna sing! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Chicago - a stunning city where the buildings feel alive! We are about to start rehearsals at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre for Hymn with a sterling cast and creative team - Ron OJ Parson, James Vincent Meredith and Chike Johnson. Can’t wait! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Being a mum pushes you to make choices you never imagined. The subtlety and nuance of it is a huge responsibility. So for all of the time, effort, thought, care, worry, joy, challenges, frustrations and happiness I wish mum’s everywhere a very Happy Mothers Day. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Rehearsals for hymn @chicagoshakes.bsky.social start next week. So excited to start this journey with Ron OJ Parsons directing James Vincent Meredith and ChikeJohnson.

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

So sad to hear of the passing of Alex Wheatle. We were in a writer’s room in 2016 and we all spent weeks hanging out and getting to know each other. He was a kind, gentle, interesting man. He told me his story in care in Shirley Oaks and it was heartbreaking. Gone far too soon. RIP Alex. 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Cannot wait to read this book by my dear friend Rachel Seiffert, out today. She’s such an amazing writer. Excited. 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hamnet is in such good company at Shakespeare Theatre Co. In Washington DC Othello himself! Writer and character hand in hand. 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I went to see The World Will Tremble with a sterling cast including @jbenjay.bsky.social A beautiful, moving, spare film about 2 Jewish prisoners’ attempt to escape Chełmno extermination camp in WWII in order to expose the horrors there. See it! I learned and felt and it will stay with me.

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Very excited that Hamnet is premiering in the US in 2026. Directed by @ericawhyman.bsky.social we bring the Shakespeares back to life. See you there! 🙏🏽

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Catch up listen: 25 years of 21st century theatre. 🎭 Fab special BBC Front Row featuring @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social, @markravenhill.bsky.social, Nica Burns, Sarah Crompton, Nikolai Foster & Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett.. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Tonight @bbcradio4.bsky.social Front Row with Samira Ahmed, Nica Burns @nimaxtheatres.bsky.social @markravenhill.bsky.social @sarahcrompton.bsky.social talking theatre this century. Interesting to remember some amazing work & the giant leaps forward we’ve made. Proud to be a part of the change. 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Just watched Zero Day @netflixuk starting Robert de Niro. It is incredible to watch an edge of your seat political thriller that speaks to our time so eloquently. The last episode (of 6) is high drama, brutal, costly and full of deeply felt current moral dilemma. Am so relieved TV like this exists!

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Calmer was repeated @bbcradio3.bsky.social tonight. A play about motherhood, chaos and aiming too high too soon. You can listen @bbcsounds.bsky.social - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

As a creative freelancer, you’re always focusing on the next job, so that sometimes you forget what went before. And after divorce, you’re forced to reframe everything. lolitachakrabarti.com is a record of my work so far. A reminder of who I’ve been, who I’ve played & who I am. Hope you like it. 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

And so Summer 1954 ends. We began in September last year and here we are having toured, played and dug down into Rattigan’s wonderful Table Number 7 and The Browning Version. In playing other peoples lives, you change your own. A fantastic job and I’ve made some firm friends. On to the next! 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

2 weeks left of a wonderful tour with exceptional people. Words say a lot but it’s the thoughts between them that resonate loudest. Rattigan is a master. Come and see us @everymanchelt.bsky.social @oxfordplayhouse.bsky.social because in 2 weeks like a delicious dream it will be over! 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This photograph of Joan Plowright and Anthony Hopkins is outside my dressing room @chichesterft.bsky.social I silently salute them as I go off to play Miss Cooper and Millie Crocker Harris in Rattigan’s delicate plays. What a beautiful theatre, what footsteps we walk in and what history it has! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Summer 1954 returns! We’ve been on hiatus but we’re back with a bang in Chichester, Richmond, Cheltenham & Oxford. Two short plays by Terence Rattigan about love, regret, cruelty, prejudice, disappointment, courage, small acts of kindness & embracing change. Maybe see you there? 🤞🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The cast, crew & creatives of Life of Pi UK are about to finish their epic 16 month tour with their final performances @nmacc.india It has been wonderful to watch this team grow and hold the show as they travel and play. Thank you! I hope you enjoy your final show!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Very excited that Ron OJ Parson will direct Hymn at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre next spring 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A 10 day round trip of Life of Pi in Mumbai & Baltimore. I began writing to create roles I would have liked to have played. Jump cut to 30 years later. One actor told me how happy he was to be able to use all aspects of himself. Sometimes I’m so busy getting where I want to be I forget to look up! ❤️

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Met the Life of Pi b’way tour cast for rehearsal at the Hippodrome Theatre today. A cracking opening night - they did a beautiful job. Congratulations to all and a huge round of applause to Scarlet Wilderink & Ashley Brooke Monroe 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Arrived here yesterday. Wide streets, big buildings, rain! Opening night of Life of Pi at The Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore tomorrow night. Can’t wait to see the new US cast play at sea! 🌹

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Mumbai in a day! Galleries, museums, landmarks, shopping and a great moment from last night’s opening of Life of Pi at NMACC. I’ll see the show here tomorrow and then I cross the world to see the US team beginning their journey. ❤️🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Opening night NMACC Mumbai What a night! An amazing venue. A pre show blessing (not unlike the one in the show!) So lovely to see the play with an Indian audience. Lines resonated here in a different way. A wonderful night of many cocktails and a true celebration of everyone’s hard work!! 🥂🌹🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Landed in Mumbai for the opening week of Life of Pi at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. The theatre is insanely beautiful and the show is going to play so well here. My first time in this city. First impressions? Love it! 🙏🏽

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So excited for these new appointments at The Old Vic in London in 2026. Bravo! 🥂

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Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today at 6pm GMT I’m at Manchester Royal Exchange talking about adapting history for the stage - the challenges of it and finding the story. Looking forward to the conversation with eight other writers in the room. If you’re interested you can join us here online tonight. www.writeaplay.co.uk

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