Upcoming Events
Retracing Our Footsteps: From South London to the South Bank Archive Unboxed Tour
Actor Yogesh Bhatt /Sansthanaka torturing Shaheen Khan as Aryaka (Arts Theatre, 1986 production). Photo Credit: Chris Ha courtesy Jatinder Verma/Tara Arts
Retracing Our Footsteps: From South London to the South Bank Archive Unboxed Tour
As part of the Wandsworth Borough of Culture, South Asian Heritage Month, this is a special treat to visit the National Theatre Archive located at the National Theatre Studio, 83-101, The Cut, London SE1 8LL
Participants will get an understanding of what the Archive Collects and What it does. It's a chance to get hands on with our performance history. The Tour is provided courtesy of the National Theatre Archive. There are two tours taking place. Please select your preferred time by filling in the form on the link below. Duration: 90 mins
Retracing Our Footsteps: From South London to the South Bank. Celebrating our Theatre heroes.
The Little Clay Cart at the National Theatre, 1991. Vincent Ebrahim as Charudatta, J.D. Kelleher as Sharvilaka and Nizwar Karanj as Maitreya. Copyright of Richard Mildenhall, courtesy of the National Theatre Archive.
Retracing Our Footsteps: From South London to the South Bank
Bhuchar Boulevard celebrates the tenure of Tara Theatre’s founder, Jatinder Verma, through excerpts of Tara Theatre’s prominent works, a visit to the Nional Theatre Archive, and the celebration of Professor Jerri Daboo’s book about this pioneering legacy.
The evening at Tara Theatre will focus on its theatre journey from grassroots activism to the mainstream stages and will feature readings and Q&A with invited guests. The event will showcase a unique genre of innovative work in the South Asian theatre canon and how it speaks to aspects of contemporary South Asian identity.
Audiences will experience the rich cultural contribution made by Tara Theatre, fostering inter-generational dialogue between South Asian creatives and communities, enabling them to feel seen, heard and appreciated.
There will be a Q&A with Jatinder Verma; designer, Magdalen Rubalcava: actors, Bhasker Patel, Sudha Bhuchar, Shaheen Khan, Shelley King and author, Jerri Daboo.
Reading/s directed by Tara Theatre’s artistic director, Natasha Kathi-Chandra.
Jerri Daboo’s book, Jatinder Verma by Routledge will be available on sale for a special price.
Retracing Our Footsteps is an initiative by Bhuchar Boulevard to accelerate the development of an Asian theatre playwriting archive. The event will be from 6.30-8pm in the theatre followed by networking and cash bar till 9pm. The event is free but booking is advised.
This event is supported by the Mayor of London, Arts Council Heritage Fund, Wandsworth Borough of Culture with support from University of Exeter, and Tara Theatre.
33rd Raindance Film Festival Shorts Programme: Young Bloods
Manjinder Virk’s film Dekho (Look) has it’s premiere at the 33rd Raindance Festival as part of the Young Bloods short film selection
33rd Raindance Film Festival Shorts Programme: Young Bloods
Manjinder Virk’s film Dekho (Look) has it’s premiere at the 33rd Raindance Festival as part of the Young Bloods short film selection
Northern Youth Film Season - Screening East is East
Northern Youth
A film season at Pictureville Cinema, curated for Bradford 2025 by Dominic Leclerc features a very special screening of East is East followed by a Q&A with an all-star panel with Chris Bisson, Emil Marwa, Sudha Bhuchar and host Nick Ahad—digging deep into culture, comedy and growing up in-between.
Still from the play, East is East by Douglas H Jeffrey 1986 production courtesy of the V&A
SIBMAS Symposium 2025
Building Bridges: Collecting, Researching and Mediating the Performing Arts
A joint symposium by SIBMAS, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf & Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln 6-7 June 2025
https://www.sibmas.org/conference/building-bridges-symposium-2025/programme-6-7-june-2025/
Suman Bhuchar & Jerri Daboo (University of Exeter, UK) will be presenting a paper on June 6, on
Retracing Our Footsteps: a collaboration to develop the archives of British South Asian Theatre
SIBMAS Symposium 2025
Building Bridges: Collecting, Researching and Mediating the Performing Arts
A joint symposium by SIBMAS, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf & Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln
6-7 June 2025
https://www.sibmas.org/conference/building-bridges-symposium-2025/programme-6-7-june-2025/
Suman Bhuchar & Jerri Daboo (University of Exeter, UK) will be presenting a paper on June 6
Retracing Our Footsteps: a collaboration to develop the archives of British South Asian Theatre
A Picture of Health Theatre of Debate Screening & Q&A
The Performing Arts Network is offering a chance to see a screening of Theatre of Debate's latest production A Picture of Health by Sudha Bhuchar and to hear about how Theatre of Debate combines theatre practice with science education.
This new play was written by award-winning playwright Sudha Bhuchar and was inspired by Irish painter Thomas Hickey's portrait 'The Three Queens of Mysore', which itself has been called "one of the most important scientific painting in the history of medicine in India"
Evening Conversations
Evening Conversations written and performed by Sudha Bhuchar
Acclaimed actor, Sudha Bhuchar (BBC I Virdee) makes her Barnes debut at the Old Sorting Office Arts Centre with her solo personal memoir show, Evening Conversations on May 24.
Sudha invites her millennial sons to ‘crack open a cold one’ and share their views on life discussing identity crisis, Shit genes, HIIT workouts, mummy runs and feminism!
Saturday 24 May 3.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets £19
Virdee BBC1& iPlayer
I’m excited for the launch of BBC’s new detective series, Virdee, set and shot in Bradford. Adapted from the best-selling detective novels by AA Dhand. Virdee will hit the screens on Monday 10th Feb 9pm BBC 1 and IPlayer. The series is 6 episodes
Virdee BBC1& iPlayer
I’m excited for the launch of BBC’s new detective series, Virdee, set and shot in Bradford. Adapted from the best-selling detective novels by AA Dhand. Virdee will hit the screens on Monday 10th Feb 9pm BBC 1 and IPlayer. The series is 6 episodes
Virdee BBC1& iPlayer
I’m excited for the launch of BBC’s new detective series, Virdee, set and shot in Bradford. Adapted from the best-selling detective novels by AA Dhand. Virdee will hit the screens on Monday 10th Feb 9pm BBC 1 and IPlayer. The series is 6 episodes
Virdee BBC1& iPlayer
I’m excited for the launch of BBC’s new detective series, Virdee, set and shot in Bradford. Adapted from the best-selling detective novels by AA Dhand. Virdee will hit the screens on Monday 10th Feb 9pm BBC 1 and IPlayer. The series is 6 episodes
Virdee BBC1& Iplayer
I’m excited for the launch of BBC’s new detective series, Virdee, set and shot in Bradford. Adapted from the best-selling detective novels by AA Dhand. Virdee will hit the screens on Monday 10th Feb 9pm BBC 1 and IPlayer. The series is 6 episodes
Virdee BBC1 & Iplayer
I’m excited for the launch of BBC’s new detective series, Virdee, set and shot in Bradford. Adapted from the best-selling detective novels by AA Dhand. Virdee will hit the screens on Monday 10th Feb 9pm BBC 1 and IPlayer. The series is 6 episodes
Raiders of the Lost Cask Radio 4
I am grateful to be the reader for the upcoming, Raiders of the lost Cask, a new commission on BBC Radio 4 as part of #BookatBedtime written by Scottish Bengali writer, Abir Mukherjee, who began writing after winning a thriller writing competition set by The Daily Telegraph. Abir’s Wyndham and Banerjee series about a crime solving duo in British Calcutta has won him accolades and a wide audience.
Raiders of the Lost Cask however is set in the highlands of Scotland, and I play Sunita, who is leading a seemingly quiet life in the village of Glen Torrance by running the local post office. When a letter arrives on her doorstep, her husband’s shady past threatens to disrupt their lives. It spurs Sunita into an unwanted adventure which will change everything.
Raiders of the Lost Cask Radio 4
I am grateful to be the reader for the upcoming, Raiders of the lost Cask, a new commission on BBC Radio 4 as part of #BookatBedtime written by Scottish Bengali writer, Abir Mukherjee, who began writing after winning a thriller writing competition set by The Daily Telegraph. Abir’s Wyndham and Banerjee series about a crime solving duo in British Calcutta has won him accolades and a wide audience.
Raiders of the Lost Cask however is set in the highlands of Scotland, and I play Sunita, who is leading a seemingly quiet life in the village of Glen Torrance by running the local post office. When a letter arrives on her doorstep, her husband’s shady past threatens to disrupt their lives. It spurs Sunita into an unwanted adventure which will change everything.
Raiders of the Lost Cask Radio 4
I am grateful to be the reader for the upcoming, Raiders of the lost Cask, a new commission on BBC Radio 4 as part of #BookatBedtime written by Scottish Bengali writer, Abir Mukherjee, who began writing after winning a thriller writing competition set by The Daily Telegraph. Abir’s Wyndham and Banerjee series about a crime solving duo in British Calcutta has won him accolades and a wide audience.
Raiders of the Lost Cask however is set in the highlands of Scotland, and I play Sunita, who is leading a seemingly quiet life in the village of Glen Torrance by running the local post office. When a letter arrives on her doorstep, her husband’s shady past threatens to disrupt their lives. It spurs Sunita into an unwanted adventure which will change everything.
Raiders of the Lost Cask Radio 4
I am grateful to be the reader for the upcoming, Raiders of the lost Cask, a new commission on BBC Radio 4 as part of #BookatBedtime written by Scottish Bengali writer, Abir Mukherjee, who began writing after winning a thriller writing competition set by The Daily Telegraph. Abir’s Wyndham and Banerjee series about a crime solving duo in British Calcutta has won him accolades and a wide audience.
Raiders of the Lost Cask however is set in the highlands of Scotland, and I play Sunita, who is leading a seemingly quiet life in the village of Glen Torrance by running the local post office. When a letter arrives on her doorstep, her husband’s shady past threatens to disrupt their lives. It spurs Sunita into an unwanted adventure which will change everything.
Raiders of the Lost Cask Radio 4
I am grateful to be the reader for the upcoming, Raiders of the lost Cask, a new commission on BBC Radio 4 as part of #BookatBedtime written by Scottish Bengali writer, Abir Mukherjee, who began writing after winning a thriller writing competition set by The Daily Telegraph. Abir’s Wyndham and Banerjee series about a crime solving duo in British Calcutta has won him accolades and a wide audience.
Raiders of the Lost Cask however is set in the highlands of Scotland, and I play Sunita, who is leading a seemingly quiet life in the village of Glen Torrance by running the local post office. When a letter arrives on her doorstep, her husband’s shady past threatens to disrupt their lives. It spurs Sunita into an unwanted adventure which will change everything.
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower Radio 4 Sunday 29 December 2024
Rumer Godden’s beloved children’s Christmas classic is dramatised by Kate Clanchy.
Starring Sudha Bhuchar, Haruka Kuroda, Lydia Wilson and Togo Igawa.
Girlies
In an unexpected blast from the past, Audible is launching Series 1 and 2 of GIRLIES on Halloween!co-written by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan nearly 30 years ago, and it ran to 3 series.
We wrote it for ourselves to be in two of the lead roles and to address the lack of narratives fromcreatives like us! Inspired by real people, Girlies is a joyous exploration of friendship, family, work and womanhood and follows the hilarious ups and downs of five 30-something Asian women living in Wimbledon in the 1990s.
Tula, Vinny, Jabeen, Sonal and Samina are best friends since school and are united by the choices they made as adults to marry outside their communities. They meet for ‘Girlies’ nights when they laugh, cry and inevitably over share!
In exploring this ‘lived multiculturism’ we were ahead of the curve! Our efforts to get it on TV was knocked back as were our more recent pitches to write the women again in their fifties and now sixties! Here’s to the Audible launch and fresh interest!
Immersive Experience Network
Summit 2024 on Oct 21 st Hear from the Other Way will present learning and
share practice of how our interactive story book A Rainbow for Amala was created.
The book is available from the website: https://www.arainbowforamala.co.uk/
'Evening Conversations' at Wimbledon Bookfest
“Insightful, charming, funny”
There will be a performance of Evening Conversations at Merton Arts Space at Wimbledon Library, Wimbledon Bookfest at 7pm.
Book Launch: A Rainbow For Amala
A Rainbow For Amala Book Launch FREE
Two years ago I was invited to be part of a new project called Green Shoots by a company called The Other Way Works. The creative team of John Sear, developer of collaborative games for public spaces, Katie Day, Fateha Begum (workshop facilitator) and myself worked together to create an interactive story book called A Rainbow for Amala. Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the day (£7.99).
Nafeesa cares about the earth and wishes that everyone else did too. But it’s hard being an environmental activist when even your best friend keeps forgetting about his pledges to walk to school and pick up litter. Join Nafeesa and her best friend Karim as they set out on a quest to befriend the quiet new girl Amala. What will give her back her smile? Use your phone or tablet to listen to their conversations, help them solve puzzles, crack codes and become part of their journey to uncover the truth.
A Rainbow for Amala was created with input from children at Regents Park Community Primary School in Small Heath, Birmingham.
Sudha Bhuchar, writer attending a soft launch for the book in the Summer
Book Launch: A Rainbow For Amala
A Rainbow For Amala Book Launch FREE
Two years ago I was invited to be part of a new project called Green Shoots by a company called The Other Way Works. The creative team of John Sear, developer of collaborative games for public spaces, Katie Day, Fateha Begum (workshop facilitator) and myself worked together to create an interactive story book called A Rainbow for Amala. Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the day (£7.99).
Nafeesa cares about the earth and wishes that everyone else did too. But it’s hard being an environmental activist when even your best friend keeps forgetting about his pledges to walk to school and pick up litter. Join Nafeesa and her best friend Karim as they set out on a quest to befriend the quiet new girl Amala. What will give her back her smile? Use your phone or tablet to listen to their conversations, help them solve puzzles, crack codes and become part of their journey to uncover the truth.
A Rainbow for Amala was created with input from children at Regents Park Community Primary School in Small Heath, Birmingham.
Sudha Bhuchar, writer attending a soft launch for the book in the Summer
'Evening Conversations' at Farnham Maltings
“Insightful, charming, funny”
There will be a performance of Evening Conversations at Tindle Studio Farnham Maltings.