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Asian Voices

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Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar talks about his debut play Disgraced

21 May 2013

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: AYAD AKHTAR The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, script-writer and actor talks to Amardeep Sohi about his debut play, Disgraced, which is currently being staged at the Bush Theatre, and which explores the experience of American Muslim professionals in the wake of 9/11.

Kristine Landon-Smith and Sudha Bhuchar review 23 years of working together at Tamasha

24 April 2013

in Asian Voices, Directors, Playwrights, Producers

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ASIAN VOICES: KRISTINE LANDON-SMITH and SUDHA BHUCHAR The joint artistic directors and co-founders of Tamasha theatre company talk to Suman Bhuchar about working together for the past 23 years, as Landon-Smith leaves the company to take a teaching job in Sydney, Australia. She has directed all the company’s shows, and their latest, The Arrival, has just ended its tour in London.

Actor Goldy Notay reports on Kali’s My Daughter’s Trial

16 April 2013

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, New Writing

ASIAN VOICES: GOLDY NOTAY The actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about her latest role for Kali theatre company, Parveen the ambitious Muslim lawyer in Jabine Chaudri’s My Daughter’s Trial (Brown’s Courtrooms, London, then touring). This site-specific work is about Parveen’s dilemma about whether to section her own mentally sick mother.

The Tricycle’s Indhu Rubasingham celebrates her first year as artistic director

5 April 2013

in Asian Voices, Directors, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: INDHU RUBASINGHAM The new artistic director of The Tricycle Theatre in north London talks to Suman Bhuchar about her first year in the job, and about the pleasures as well as the challenges of running this high-profile Off-West End venue, whose 2012 hit, Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet, has just been nominated for an Olivier Award.

Broadcaster and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli adapts Moliere’s The Miser

13 February 2013

in Asian Voices, Playwrights, Political theatre

ASIAN VOICES: HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI The co-adapter, with director Jatinder Verma, of Moliere’s The Miser, now renamed as Kanjoos (Tara Arts, currently touring), talks to Suman Bhuchar about this re-imagining of the classic, which is set in the money-mad maelstrom of modern Mumbai.

Professor Tony Howard investigates Multicultural Shakespeare

21 January 2013

in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Playwrights, Political theatre

INTERVIEW: TONY HOWARD The University of Warwick professor talks to Suman Bhuchar about Multicultural Shakespeare, a major AHRC-funded project to record the contribution of Black and Asian artists to the development of Shakespearean performance in the UK.

Actor Madhav Sharma tackles Much Ado About Nothing

1 September 2012

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Actor Madhav Sharma talks to Suman Bhuchar about his performance as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, which is set in Delhi and directed by Iqbal Khan for the RSC as part of the World Shakespeare Festival.

World Stages London: Keith Khan, designer, interviewed

8 June 2012

in Asian Voices,

Asian Voices: Keith Khan, designer, interviewed by Suman Bhuchar. He talks about his current project Wah! Wah! Girls, a contemporary musical set in London’s East End, which marks the first collaboration between Sadler’s Wells, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Kneehigh. Wah! Wah! Girls runs at Sadler’s Wells’ West End venue, the Peacock theatre 24 May – 23 June as part of World Stages London – www.worldstageslondon.org.uk. The interview took place in London, 7 June 2012.

The Taming of the Shrew in Urdu at the Globe

29 May 2012

in Asian Voices, International, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

ASIAN VOICES: NADIA JAMIL and OMAIR RANA The Lahore screen and stage star, who plays Katherine (Qurat ul Aine), and the actor who plays Petruchio (Rustam), chat to Suman Bhuchar about the Theatre Wallay-KASHF production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), which is performed in Urdu as part of this theatre’s epic Globe to Globe season.

Globe to Globe season: Hindi Twelfth Night discussed

30 April 2012

in Asian Voices, Directors, International, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

ASIAN VOICES: TWELFTH NIGHT Suman Bhuchar grabs key members of the Hindi production of Twelfth Night, by Company Theatre, presented at Shakespeare’s Globe as part of its Globe to Globe season. Atul Kumar, the director, and Amitosh Nagpal, the translator as well as a member of the acting ensemble – who plays Sebastian – are also joined by Steven Barfield, from the University of Westminster.

New Bush supremo Madani Younis — his debut season

12 April 2012

in Asian Voices, Directors, New Writing, Playwrights

INTERVIEW: MADANI YOUNIS On the eve of the opening of his inaugural production of Lee Mattinson’s Chalet Lines at the Bush Theatre, the venue’s new Artistic Director and Chief Executive talks to Philip Fisher about his vision for the theatre and his first season, called New Writing and New Artists.

Playwright Ishy Din and director Iqbal Khan get Snookered

26 January 2012

in Asian Voices, Directors, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: ISHY DIN and IQBAL KHAN The playwright and director of Snookered (Oldham Coliseum Theatre/Bush Theatre) talk to Suman Bhuchar about the genesis and staging of this new play, produced by Tamasha, which examines British Muslim life today.

Asian Voices: Shiv Grewal talks about A British Subject

5 November 2011

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices,

ASIAN VOICES: SHIV GREWAL Actor Shiv Grewal, appearing in A British Subject (currently at the Arts Theatre to Nov 26 2011), talks to Suman Bhuchar. The play, written by Nichola McAuliffe, based on research done by her journalist husband Don Mackay, deals with the case of Mirza Tahir Hussain — who following the death of a taxi driver shortly after his arrival in Pakistan in 1988 was arrested, tried and condemned to death, subsequently spending 18 years on death row.

Interview (extract): Tim Supple in conversation

24 August 2011

in Asian Voices, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, International

Edinburgh Festival 2011: Tim Supple, director. An extract from a conversation ahead of the UK premiere of Supple’s two-part pan-Arabic version of One Thousand And One Nights, running at the Royal Lyceum as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. This section of the discussion, with Dominic Cavendish, deals with his early preparations for the project and reflections on differing theatre cultures in the Arab world.

Asian Voices: Nightwatchman at the National Theatre

22 August 2011

in Asian Voices,

Asian Voices: The actress Stephanie Street and playwright Prasanna Puwanarajah talk to Suman Bhuchar about a monologue in part 2 of the National Theatre’s Double Feature season, staged in the Paintframe department of the NT – a play about playing cricket at national level, testy father-daughter relations and Sri Lankan politics called Nightwatchman. Recorded at the National Theatre on August 16.

Professor Colin Chambers explores the history of black and Asian theatre (2/2)

12 August 2011

in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Books

INTERVIEW: COLIN CHAMBERS (2/2) The professor of drama at Kingston University, and former journalist and literary manager of the RSC, talks to Suman Bhuchar about the long and previously obscure history of African, Asian and Caribbean diasporic practitioners as recounted in his new book, Black and Asian Theatre in Britain (Routledge).

Professor Colin Chambers explores the history of black and Asian theatre (1/2)

12 August 2011

in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Books

INTERVIEW: COLIN CHAMBERS (1/2) The professor of drama at Kingston University, and former journalist and literary manager of the RSC, talks to Suman Bhuchar about the long and previously obscure history of African, Asian and Caribbean diasporic practitioners as recounted in his new book, Black and Asian Theatre in Britain (Routledge).

Freedom of speech in the arts debate (1/2)

9 July 2011

in Asian Voices, Reviews and Roundtables

INDEX ON CENSORSHIP: BEYOND BELIEF – POLICING, POLICY AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE ARTS (1/2) Debate on Policing Challenging Art, with Tamsin Allen (Head of media and information law at Bindmans LLP), the playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Canon Giles Fraser (St Paul’s Cathedral), director David Lan, Chief Superintendent Peter Terry (Metropolitan Police) and Munira Mirza (director of Arts and Culture for the Mayor of London). The panel was chaired by Julia Farrington of Index on Censorship.

Freedom of speech in the arts debate (2/2)

9 July 2011

in Asian Voices, Reviews and Roundtables

INDEX ON CENSORSHIP: BEYOND BELIEF – POLICING, POLICY AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE ARTS (2/2) Debate on Policing Challenging Art, with Tamsin Allen (Head of media and information law at Bindmans LLP), the playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Canon Giles Fraser (St Paul’s Cathedral), director David Lan, Chief Superintendent Peter Terry (Metropolitan Police) and Munira Mirza (director of Arts and Culture for the Mayor of London). The panel was chaired by Julia Farrington of Index on Censorship.

Playwright Tanika Gupta adapts Great Expectations

17 March 2011

in Asian Voices, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: TANIKA GUPTA The playwright tells Suman Bhuchar about her new adaptation of Great Expectations (Watford Palace and English Touring Theatre), which transposes Dickens’s story to 1860s India, and is currently on tour in a production directed by Nikolai Foster. Recorded at ETT.

Actors Shelley King and Jamila Massey on The Usual Auntijies

10 March 2011

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Comedy

Asian voices: Shelley King and Jamila Massey. Two of the stars of Paven Virk’s The Usual Auntijies (Belgrade, Coventry) talk to Suman Bhuchar about this bitter-sweet comedy, directed by Barry Kyle, and discuss current issues in the growth of South Asian theatre. Recorded in Coventry.

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