Hobson's Choice

by Tanika Gupta, Harold Brighouse

Overview

Widower Hari Hobson has a successful dress-making business and three daughters. The oldest, Durga, is the brains behind the operation.

'Can't we choose husbands for ourselves?'

I've been telling you for the last five minutes, you're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves.'

But when Hobson says that Durga is too valuable to lose and must give up all idea of getting married, she takes her fate into her own hands and starts her own rival shop nearby.

Tanika Gupta's new version of this classic 1916 comedy sets the play in a modern day Salford Asian community, giving a new generation a chance to enjoy the play's sharp wit and charm.

This version of Hobson's Choice was performed at the Young Vic, London, June - August 2003.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840023831
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Series:	Oberon Modern Plays
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Tanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Her stage plays include "Voices in the Wind", "Skeleton", "On the Coach with Enoch", "Sanctuary" (also published by Oberon books) and "The Waiting Room", which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's "The Good Woman of Sezuan" and adapted Gita Mehta's "A River Sutra".

Table of Contents

Plot synopsis
a Lancashire comedy
who's who in "Hobson's Choice"
themes and images in "Hobson's Choice"
text commentary
self-test questions
self-test answers
how to write an examination essay
how to write a coursework essay.