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Asian Voices

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Director Iqbal Khan on Arthur Miller and Antony Sher

15 October 2010

in American Drama, Asian Voices, Directors

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ASIAN VOICES: IQBAL KHAN The director talks to Suman Bhuchar about his current revival of Arthur Miller’s 1994 play, Broken Glass (Tricycle), which stars Antony Sher, and about his career, and the state of Asian theatre today. Recorded at the National Theatre.

Beautiful Burnout: Asian actor Taqi Nazeer

14 August 2010

in Asian Voices, Edinburgh Festival and Fringe

ASIAN VOICES: TAQI NAZEER The actor, who plays the part of Ajay Chopra in Bryony Lavery’s play (Frantic Assembly/National Theatre of Scotland), talks to Suman Bhuchar about his professional debut in the show. Recorded at the Pleasance Forth.

Tamasha theatre company 21st birthday

1 August 2010

in Asian Voices, Directors, International

ASIAN VOICES: SUDHA BHUCHAR and KRISTINE LANDON-SMITH The writer and director of Tamasha discuss their latest, The House of Bilquis Bibi (Hampstead, and touring), with Suman Bhuchar. The play is an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba and is part of the company’s 21st birthday celebrations.

Playwright Alia Bano on Hens and Shades

17 June 2010

in Asian Voices, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: ALIA BANO The playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about her latest play, Hens, which has had a short run at the Riverside Studios before being screened by the Sky Arts channel on 23 June in their series of contemporary televised drama. They also discuss her other work, including her debut Shades and her current Let Them Eat Cake (Royal Court), as well as Gap (National Connections season). Recorded at the Riverside.

Pravesh Kumar on the Rifco Bhangra musical

1 May 2010

in Asian Voices, Musicals

ASIAN VOICES: PRAVESH KUMAR The artistic director of Rifco Arts talks to Suman Bhuchar about his latest project, Britain’s Got Bhangra (Stratford East/Warwick and touring), a musical composed by Sumeet Chopra which starts with 1980s sequins and evolves into R ‘n’ B fusion. He also discusses other Rifco shows. Recorded at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Behzti playwright speaks out about censorship

29 April 2010

in Asian Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: GURPREET KAUR BHATTI The playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about her latest play, Behud (Beyond Belief) (Soho), which is an imaginative take on her own controversial play, Behzti (Dishonour), which was stopped by a riot outside the theatre on its first production at Birmingham Rep in December 2004. They also explore other aspects of Asian theatre, including Bhatti’s earlier career.

Actor and comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar on Dumb Show

10 April 2010

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices,

ASIAN VOICES: SANJEEV BHASKAR The actor and comedian talks to Suman Bhuchar about his role in Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show (2004), which is currently being revived at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, and is a black comedy about celebrity. He also discusses his roles in Art, Spamalot and his early career. Recorded at the Rose Theatre.

Shahid Nadeem: theatre for social change

16 March 2010

in Asian Voices, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: INTERNATIONAL THEATRE SPECIAL Shahid Naseem, playwright, director and founder member of Ajoka, a theatre for social change that was set up in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1984, talks to Suman Bhuchar about his uncompromising career, and the company’s history plays and political interventions. Recorded at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Playwright Rani Moorthy: Handful of Henna

29 January 2010

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: RANI MOORTHY The actor and playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about her career and her latest play, Handful of Henna (Rasa with Oxfordshire Theatre Company), a touring production which examines the magical powers of henna in the context of a wedding story. Recorded at Watermans.

Actor Bhasker Patel on Nation and the National

4 January 2010

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Theatre People

ASIAN VOICES: BHASKER PATEL The actor, who is currently playing Mau’s father in Mark Ravenhill’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Nation (National), talks to Suman Bhuchar about this play, and about his 30 years in the business, which started at this flagship theatre in the 1970s and includes film and television classics. Recorded at the National.

Young playwright Atiha Sen Gupta: What Fatima Did…

29 October 2009

in Asian Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: ATIHA SEN GUPTA The young playwright talks to Suman Bhuchar about What Fatima Did… (Hampstead), her debut play about a 17-year-old Muslim who decides to start wearing the hijab, raising issues of identity and freedom. Expletives not deleted.

Actor Kulvinder Ghir on his career in comedy

23 October 2009

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Comedy

ASIAN VOICES: KULVINDER GHIR The actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about his current role in Trevor Griffiths’s Comedians (Lyric, Hammersmith) and about his career in comedy, which culminated in BBC’s Goodness Gracious Me, as well as his other roles in Griffiths’s plays. Recorded at the Lyric, Hammersmith.

Mixed Up North: actor Muzz Khan

12 September 2009

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, New Writing

ASIAN VOICES: MUZZ KHAN The actor talks to Suman Bhuchar about his involvement with the Out of Joint project, Mixed Up North, which examines the difficulties of uniting divided racial communities in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley. Recorded at the Bolton Octagon.

Interview with Hanif Kureishi about The Black Album

1 September 2009

in Asian Voices, Books, Playwrights

ASIAN THEATRE SPECIAL The novelist Hanif Kureishi and Jatinder Verma, artistic director of Tara Arts, talk to Suman Bhuchar about taking The Black Album from page to stage at the National Theatre – and about multicultural relations during the 20-year period since the Salman Rushdie affair.

Black and Asian writers discuss white youth

21 August 2009

in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Playwrights

WHITE WORKING-CLASS SPECIAL Playwrights Roy Williams and Ashmeed Sohoye talk to Aleks Sierz about two plays – Williams’s Days of Significance (RSC) and Sohoye’s Rigged (Theatre Centre) – both of which examine the condition of white working-class youth in contemporary Britain. Recorded at Theatre Centre.

Playwright Tanika Gupta career overview

7 June 2009

in Asian Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: TANIKA GUPTA The playwright gives a career overview to Aleks Sierz, talking about her plays, Voices on the Wind (National, 1998), The Waiting Room (National, 2000), Sanctuary (National, 2002), Gladiator Games (Sheffield, 2005) and Sugar Mummies (Royal Court, 2006). Recorded at Staging Interculturality, the 18th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English, held in Vienna. Substantial extract. (Edited transcript available as ‘Writing Beyond the Stereotypes (Tanika Gupta in Conversation with Aleks Sierz)’, in Werner Huber, Margarete Rubik and Julia Novak (eds), Staging Interculturality (CDE 17), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010.)

Asian Voices returns with… the Bollywood Bronte

2 May 2009

in Asian Voices, Black Voices

INTERVIEW: FELIX CROSS The Artistic Director of NITRO (formerly the Black Theatre Co-operative) talks to Suman Bhuchar about composing the score for Tamasha’s new Bollywood version of Wuthering Heights.

Asian Voices special on Bollywood Bronte

2 May 2009

in Asian Voices, Musicals

ASIAN VOICES: SUDHA BHUCHAR The artistic director of Tamasha, actor and playwright talks to her sister Suman Bhuchar about her company’s new version of Wuthering Heights – a Bollywood Bronte.

A Disappearing Number: the inside story

9 October 2008

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Physical and Visual theatre

ASIAN VOICES: PAUL BHATTACHARJEE The actor, currently appearing in a restaging of Complicite’s 2007 play, A Disappearing Number (Barbican), inspired by the collaboration between Indian autodidact Srinivasa Ramanujan and Cambridge professor GH Hardy, talks to Suman Bhuchar.

Anupama Chandrasekhar, Lolita Chakrabarti on Free Outgoing

25 July 2008

in Asian Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

ASIAN VOICES: ANUPAMA CHANDRASEKHAR AND LOLITA CHAKRABARTI The playwright and the actor talk to Suman Bhuchar about the taboo-busting play, Free Outgoing (Royal Court), which is now touring to the Traverse, Edinburgh.

Asian Theatre in 2008: a roundtable discussion

8 January 2008

in Asian Voices, Reviews and Roundtables

ASIAN VOICES: WHERE WE ARE NOW Jatinder Verma of Tara, Kristine Landon-Smith of Tamasha, Shobu Kapoor from Kali, and academic researcher Suman Bhuchar join Dominic Cavendish to talk about Asian theatre in the UK: past, present and future.

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