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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 into French and did sell-out tours in France and Belgium. Behzti was translated into Italian in 2012 and was performed in Bari, Italy. In 2010 her follow up to Behzti – Behud (Beyond Belief) was co-produced by Soho Theatre and Coventry Belgrade and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award. Other credits include the British feature, Everywhere And Nowhere, DCI Stone (Radio 4), Londonee (Rich Mix), Dead Meat (Channel 4) and An Enemy Of The People (BBC World Service). Her play for Watford Palace Theatre, Fourteen, will also be produced this May. She is currently under commission to the National Theatre and is a member of the writing team of The Archers.

Roxana Silbert Director Roxana is Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre and was an Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Roxana was Artistic Director of Paines Plough Theatre Company (2005-2009); Literary Director at the Traverse Theatre (2001-2004) and Associate Director, Royal Court (1998-2000). In 1997, Roxana was Associate Director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Recent credits include Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Shakespeare Company); A Life of Galileo (Royal Shakespeare Company and Birmingham Repertory Theatre) and Tartuffe (Birmingham Repertory Theatre).

Jamie Vartan Designer Jamie Vartan is an award-winning designer, his current theatre credits include: Ballyturk (Galway Arts Festival 2014 and National Theatre). Previous theatre credits include: Misterman (Galway Arts Festival 2011, National Theatre and St Anne’s Warehouse, New York); The Hostage, Mrs Warren’s Profession and The Playboy of the Western World (National Theatre of Ireland) and Mass Observation (Almeida Theatre). Current work in opera includes: Romeo et Juliette (Herceg Novi Amphitheatre, Montenegro) and Manon Lescaut (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia). His design for A Village Romeo and Juliet (Wexford Operai) won the Irish Times Best Set Design Award 2013.

Chahine Yavroyan Lighting Designer Theatre credits include: Tartuffe, Have Box Will Travel and Orphans (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); King Lear, Major Barbara (The Abbey, Dublin); Fuente Ovejuna (Teatros del Canal, Madrid); Three Sisters, A Comedy of Errors (Manchester Royal Exchange); Let The Right One In, The Pass, Narrative, Relocated and Wig Out! (Royal Court); The Vortex (The Gate, Dublin); Fall, Damascus and When The Bulbul Stopped Singing (Traverse Theatre); Mahabharata (Sadler’s Wells); Dallas Sweetman, House of Agnes (Paines Plough).

Giles Thomas Sound Designer Composer/Sound Designer credits include: Prime Time, Untitled Matriarch Play, Mint and Pigeons (Royal Court); Take A Deep Breath and Breathe (Oval House Theatre) and Stop Kiss (Leicester Square Theatre). Sound Designer credits include: Superior Donuts (Southwark Playhouse); Three Men In a Boat (Original Theatre Company, UK Tour); Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat and House of Agnes (Paines Plough). Associate Sound Designer credits include: Henry V (Michael Grandage Company). Music Producer credits include: An Appointment with the Wickerman (National Theatre Scotland).

Nathan Jones Visual & Projection Designer Nat Jones (aka Soopanatural) worked recently with Birmingham Repertory Theatre to create the visuals for The Legend Of Mike Smith, Soweto Kinch’s theatre production directed by Jonzi D. Other artistic collaborations have included Nike, Akala, Charlie Dark, Mark De Clive-Lowe, Boy Blue Entertainment, Brighton Hip Hop Festival and Nu Century Arts. Soopanatural Productions’ work has featured on BBC, at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Tate Modern, The REP, The Albany, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, York Jazz Festival, Cargo in Shoreditch, XOYO in London, The Wardrobe in Leeds, the Rome Coliseum and numerous other theatre venues, music festivals and clubs in Europe. Current projects include Lapetus Records (South Africa), The Legend Of Mike Smith and The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company’s production of Richard II which was at the Southbank Centre earlier this year.

Julia Horan CDG Casting Director Theatre includes: The Nether, Adler & Gibb, Birdland, The Mistress Contract, Gastronauts, Clybourne Park, Wanderlust and Sucker Punch (Royal Court); A View from the Bridge, Happy Days and A Doll’s House (West End/BAM); After Miss Julie, The Glass Menagerie and Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic); Mr Burns, Chimerica, Through a Glass Darkly, Measure for Measure and The Homecoming (Almeida); The Events, A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); Spring Awakening, The Seagull (Headlong); Another Country (CFT/West End); A Chorus of Disapproval, Absent Friends, As You Like It and The Weir (West End); Gaddafi: A Living Myth (English National Opera); Othello (Cheek by Jowl). Television includes: Adha Cup, Parliamo Glasgow, Harvest (IWC Media); The Verdict (Lionsgate Television); The Bill (Thames Television); The Badness of George IV (Flashback Television). Film includes: Puffins.

Erin Gilley Assistant Director Previous assistant director credits at Birmingham Repertory Theatre include: Twelve Angry Men and A Life of Galileo. She is currently the Artistic Director of elastic future and was also the Artistic Producer of Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Most recently she directed the digital theatre performance Peek A Boo for LIFT. Other credits include: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Deal and Beautiful (elastic future); Wreckage (Crowded Fire) and Equus (Boxcar Theatre). Erin studied theatre as an undergraduate at Princeton University and is currently on secondment at Birmingham Repertory Theatre as a Birkbeck MFA candidate.

Zabarjad Salam Voice & Dialect Coach Theatre credits include: We Are Proud to Present (Bush); Other Desert Cities (Old Vic); Once a Catholic (Tricycle); The Djinns of Eidgah (Royal Court); Sizwe Bansi is Dead (Young Vic); The Commitments, Let It Be (West End); Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, Matilda and Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company); Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester Festival); The Veil, 13, The Comedy of Errors, Travelling Light, Collaborators, The Last of the Haussmans, Timon of Athens and This House (National Theatre); Zaide (Sadler’s Wells/UK tour). Television includes: Being Eileen, Blandings (BBC); Cucumber, Indian Summers (Channel 4) and Cilla (ITV).

Gayatri Jani Design Assistant Gayatri Jani is a designer with a multitude of skills, from her early background in Graphic Design, to a degree in Product Design bringing in the 3D world. Her true passion remained on stage and she continued this in her spare time. Her experience in 2D and 3D design has led her to creating and dressing scenery, props and images for live performances and short films. Gayatri is a highly experienced design assistant and her credits include: Women Of Hope – promotional material; October Wild Card (Sadler’s Wells) – set designer; Brood or Thought (short film) – production designer; Michael Jackson 51 (Curve Theatre) – props and promotional material.