BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ROYAL COURT PRESENTS
BY GURPREET KAUR BHATTI
Commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre First performed at The STUDIO,
Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 22 May 2014
CAST
| JEETO | Sudha Bhuchar |
| LIZ | Lauren Crace |
| MAJOR | Neil D’Souza |
| REEMA | Preeya Kalidas |
| PAL | Rez Kempton |
| COOKIE | Zita Sattar |
CREATIVES
| Writer | Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti |
| Director | Roxana Silbert |
| Designer | Jamie Vartan |
| Lighting Designer | Chahine Yavroyan |
| Sound Designer | Giles Thomas |
| Visual & Projection Designer | Nathan Jones |
| Casting Director | Julia Horan CDG |
| Assistant Director | Erin Gilley |
| Voice & Dialect Coach | Zabarjad Salam |
| Design Assistant | Gayatri Jani |
| Stage Manager | Ruth Morgan |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Juliette Taylor |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Hannan Finnegan |
Paint supplied by Farrow & Ball Solihull Showroom Thank You to ASDA Capehill
Sudha Bhuchar Jeeto Theatre credits include: Strictly Dandia and A Fine Balance (Tamasha Theatre Company); Haroun And The Sea Of Stories (National Theatre) and A Yearning (Birmingham Repertory Theatre). Film credits include: All In Good Time (Leftbank Pictures). Television credits include: Stella (Tidy Productions) and Murder, Doctors, Holby City, Casualty and EastEnders (BBC). Radio credits include: An Everyday Story Of Afghan Folk, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Silver Street and The Archers (BBC). Sudha is also a playwright and her current work includes My Name Is… at the Arcola.
Lauren Crace Liz Lauren trained at RADA. Her theatre credits include: Theatre Uncut (Young Vic); And I And Silence (Finborough Theatre) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Salisbury Playhouse). Television credits include: Mr Selfridge series 1, 2 and 3 (ITV); Room At The Top, Holby City, Silk, Sherlock: The Great Game and Eastenders (BBC) and Shameless (Channel 4). Radio credits include: The Martin Beck Killings (BBC Radio 4) and Minister Of Chance (Radio Static). Other work includes: Skyvers (National Theatre) and Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court). Lauren won Best Newcomer at the TV Choice/TV Quick Awards 2009.
Neil D’Souza Major Theatre credits include: Drawing The Line (Hampstead Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Midnight’s Children (Royal Shakespeare Company); Tintin (West End and No.1 tour); The Man of Mode (National Theatre); Twelfth Night (West End); Merchant of Venice, The Honest Whore (Shakespeare’s Globe); Skeleton (Soho Theatre). Television credits include: Friday Night Dinner (Big Talk); Doctors, Holby City (BBC); Hustle (Kudos) and The Bill (Thames TV). Film credits include: Still Life (Fox); Closed Circuit (Working Title); Filth (Steel Mill Films); Italian Movies (Indiana). Radio credits include Goan Flame and The Red Oleander (BBC). Work as a writer includes: Small Miracle (Tricycle Theatre), Five Beats To The Bar (Radio 4), Westway (World Service), The Bollywoods (BBC). He is currently commissioned to write a stage play for the Watford Palace Theatre.
Preeya Kalidas Reema Theatre credits include: Oxford Street (Royal Court); Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria) and Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi Theatre). Television credits include: EastEnders, Mistresses, Bodies, My Family and Hotel Babylon (BBC); Bollywood Carmen (BBC3); Mr Eleven (Tiger Aspect); Britz (Mentorn/Channel 4) and Decreed (HTV West). Film credits include: Four Lions (Warp Films); It’s A Wonderful Afterlife (Bend it Films); Bend It Like Beckham (Rock Media); East Is East (East Is East Productions); Jump Boy (Dancing Fleas Productions); Sari And Trainers (Stretch Limo Productions) and The Fiancée (Minerva Films).
Rez Kempton Pal Theatre credits include: Transmissions and Nativity (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Drawing The Line (Hampstead Theatre); The Battle of Green Lanes (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Arrange That Marriage (UK Tour); Heer Ranjha (mac, Birmingham). Television credits include: Adha Cup and Singapore Mutiny (Channel 4); Doctors, Trial By Jury and Roger Roger (BBC); The Bill and Fall (ITV). Radio credits include: Silver Street and The Raj Quartet (BBC). Film credits include: Amar Akbar & Tony (Sash Media Productions); Chakara (Laid Back Films), Life Goes On (Stormglass Productions) and The Mystic Masseur (Merchant Ivory Productions).
Zita Sattar Cookie Theatre credits include: East Is East (Birmingham Repertory Theatre/Royal Court); Silence (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Top Girls (Northampton Theatre Royal); Romeo & Juliet (Leicester Haymarket); A Yearning (Tamasha Tour); Precious and Seeds Under Stones (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and D’yer Eat With Your Fingers?! (Stratford East). Television credits include: According To Bex, Casualty, Heartburn Hotel, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Prisoners’ Wives (BBC) and Love Life (ITV). Film credits include: Another Me (Rainy Day Films); West is West (BBC Films); Janice Beard 45wpm (Dakota Films); Esther Kahn (Magic Lantern Films); Large (Film Four) and Almost Adult (Bankside Films).
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti Writer Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam (Shameless) broke box office records at Soho Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2001. Her play Behzti (Dishonour) was sensationally closed in December 2004, after playing to packed houses at The REP. In 2005, Behzti won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and in 2006, the play was translated