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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.

Hong Kong’s Mathias Woo goes to Singapore’s Huayi Festival

27 February 2013

in Directors, International, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: MATHIAS WOO The Hong Kong-based Zuni Icosahederon co-artistic director, who is also an architect, talks to Mary Mazzilli about architecture and theatre, making theatre in Asia, the changes in Hong Kong after the hand-over in 1997, Eighteen Springs (now running at Huayi Festival in Singapore) and what he thinks about experimental theatre in the UK.

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.

Asian Voices: actor Raza Jaffrey on starring in Chicago

7 July 2012

in Musicals

Asian Voices: Raza Jaffrey. An interview with the actor, who shot to theatrical fame via Mamma Mia! and Bombay Dreams, and whose TV credits include Spooks and Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee. Suman Bhuchar quizzes him backstage at the Garrick Theatre, as he prepares to take to the stage as Billy Flynn in Chicago for one of the last times in his recent run in the starring role, after seven years away from the stage in London.

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.

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).

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.

Kali Theatre Company celebrates 21 years of new writing

28 February 2011

in Asian Voices, New Writing, Playwrights

Asian Voices: Janet Steel, artistic director of Kali, talks to Suman Bhuchar about the touring company, which specialises in new writing by women from a South Asian background. She outlines Kali’s 21-year history, as well as current projects, such as Sonia Likhari’s Behna and Bettina Gracias’s Gandhi and Coconuts. Recorded at Kali.

The first British-Asian Hamlet makes the bard popular

26 January 2011

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

ASIAN VOICES: DHARMESH PATEL The first British-Asian Hamlet talks to Suman Bhuchar about making his Shakespearean debut in the RSC’s 70-minute young people’s version of the play, which is touring Britain and will arrive at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in February. Recorded at the Roundhouse, where he is also playing in the RSC’s The Comedy of Errors and As You Like It.

Jatinder Verma discusses intercultural theatre

15 December 2010

in Asian Voices, International

ASIAN VOICES: JATINDER VERMA The founder and artistic director of Tara Arts gives a lecture entitled Intercultural Theatre as a Paradigm for European Modernity, part of the 4th Intercultural Practice Exchange: Interculturalism – Art and Policy, a collaboration between Border Crossings and the Platform for Intercultural Europe, held at Rose Bruford College.

Debate – what will the cuts mean for diversity in theatre? (2/2)

15 November 2010

in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Reviews and Roundtables

COALITION CUTS SPECIAL (2/2) Steven Luckie asks what the arts funding cuts might mean for black, Asian and other diverse theatrical cultures in the UK. His guests – Deborah Bestwick (Oval House Theatre), Patricia Cumper (Talawa), Tyrone Huggins (Sustained Theatre), and Jatinder Verma (Tara Arts) – continue by looking at the future of training and education.

Debate – what will the cuts mean for diversity in theatre? (1/2)

15 November 2010

in Asian Voices, Black Voices, Reviews and Roundtables

COALITION CUTS SPECIAL (1/2) Steven Luckie asks what the arts funding cuts might mean for black, Asian and other diverse theatrical cultures in the UK. His guests – Deborah Bestwick (Oval House Theatre), Patricia Cumper (Talawa), Tyrone Huggins (Sustained Theatre), and Jatinder Verma (Tara Arts) – begin by looking at the effects of funding reductions.

Actor, writer and comedian Meera Syal interviewed

30 October 2010

in Actors and Performers, Asian Voices, Comedy

ASIAN VOICES: MEERA SYAL The actor, writer and comedian talks to Suman Bhuchar about her role in Willy Russell’s 1986 classic Shirley Valentine (Trafalgar Studios), her film and writing career, and her advice to aspiring actors. Recorded in her dressing room, Trafalgar Studios.

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.

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.

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