Anupama Chandrasekhar's latest play Disconnect receives great reviews in the UK press.

Anupama Chandrasekhar, an alumnus of the International Playwrights programme at the Royal Court Theatre, has received rave reviews for her latest play Disconnect. The programme has been supported by the Genesis Foundation for more than a decade and seeks to help talented international playwrights learn to write for the professional stage.

Anupama Chandrasekhar was discovered by the Royal Court Theatre's Internarional Department during their work in India. As a young journalist with aspirations to be a playwright, she first attended the International Residency for Young Playwrights in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 2000 and continued to develop a play with the department. Her first play, Free Outgoing, opened upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007 before transferring downstairs in 2008 as part of the Upstairs/Downstairs season.

Disconnect is set in an Indian call centre where bright young graduates are working to claw back cash spent by Americans crippled by debt and portrays the connections and disconnections between economies and people on opposite sides of the world. Below are some highlights from the reviews.

Disconnect will be performed once again on the 31st March - 3rd April 2010 in a vacant shopping unit at Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, as part of Theatre Local by the Royal Court. For more infomation please visit http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whatson01.asp

"A play that has sharp things to say about subjects varying from Indian racism to American consumerism. (...) It's intelligent, punchy and pointed."

The Times online ****

"Surging with its own comic resilience, the play is a minor marvel. It works on every level - micro, macro - literal, metaphoric, and it effortlessly links the internecine tensions within the group to a world economy lopsidedly (and a tad superannuatedly) in hock to the US. (...) it does all of this with fantastic comic speed, an uncanny ear for overlapping dialogue, and a terrific sense of the metaphoric dimensions of the situation."

The Independent ****

"Chandrasekhar has researched this play in satisfying detail. (...) There is great technical bravura to the writing, too. There is much more to admire than to criticise, not least the sparky dialogue and cracking performances. (...) At once exciting and poignant, Disconnect keeps its audiences hooked throughout."

The Telegraph online ****

"It's this inside out view of the global recession as it affects, and infects, the suddenly not so impersonal recovery agents, that gives the play its originality and spark. (...) Indhu Rubasingham's clever, well cast and touchingly played production (...) full of imaginative wit and feeling."

What's On Stage online ****

"Indhu Rubasingham's Theatre Upstairs production blends destructive hopes and clinical efficiency, embodied by John Napier's design. The acting is also high-class. (...) Chandrasekhar gives us an insider's portrait of modern India and a fresh,poignant meaning to the insidious idea of the American dream."

The Guardian ***