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Suman Bhuchar

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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.

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.

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.

India hosts the largest theatre festival in Asia

13 January 2011

in Asian Voices, International

ASIAN VOICES: ANURADHA KAPUR The director of, and professor at, the National School of Drama in India tells Suman Bhuchar about the 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, an annual festival, held this year on 7-22 January, and the biggest event of its kind in Asia. Recorded in Delhi.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: director Max Stafford-Clark

12 September 2009

in Directors, Verbatim Drama

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INTERVIEW: MAX STAFFORD-CLARK The artistic director of Out of Joint theatre company talks to Suman Bhuchar about his latest project, Mixed Up North, which explores the difficulties of uniting divided racial communities in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley. Recorded at the Bolton Octagon.

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.

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.

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.