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Parv Bancil

PARV BANCIL

  (1967 - 2017)
Nationality:    British
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Parv Bancil (February 7 1967  April 2 2017), playwright, member of the Hounslow Arts Co-operative (HAC); the comedy team One Nation Under a Groove, and musician with comedy band The Dead Jalebis. HAC gave voice to a generation of urban Asian youth, growing up with punk and committed to finding new energised and subversive forms to express their experience. Fellow HAC member Poulomi Desai describes a company doing street theatre, publishing a zine, creating spoof bands, as well as putting on shows like Parv's and Ravinder Gill's Curse of the Dead Dog, that toured London, their influences ranging from Funkidelicate Parliament to political poets to science fiction. She describes their being accused in the community 'of washing dirty laundry in public' while the few Asian officers around at the time didn't get what they were doing'. Parv Bancil went on to write acclaimed plays like Nadir (radio, 1991), Bad Company (1991, Tara Arts, Papa Was a Bus Conductor (1995), Crazyhorse (1997, Paines Plough), Ungrateful Dead and Bollywood or Bust.

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below is a list of Parv Bancil's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bollywood Or Bust Lnnit         Crazyhorse         Made In England         Papa Was A Bus Conductor         Ungrateful Dead

Bollywood Or Bust Lnnit

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Crazyhorse

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set in a backstreet London lock-up a story of bungled burglaries and blustery boy's talk

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Paines Plough

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BAC 2, London >>>     1997

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Paines Plough/Tara

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Faber and Faber, London, 1997   

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Made In England

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a punk band breaks up when the lead guitar re-invents himself as sitar playing "Billy India"

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BAC , London >>>     1998

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in Black and Asian Plays, anthology ed Cheryl Robson, aurora Metro, 2000   

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Papa Was A Bus Conductor

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the story follows the "Butthole" family, enmired in racism and besieged by demands from the "electric city company". But instead of presenting the Buttholes as put upon, Bancil has them lead by the anglophile immigrant Father whose ropy grasp of english insulates him from insult and has him venerating a photo of adolf Hitler that he takes to be Winston Churchill.
Patrick Marmion, evening Standard

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Comedy

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Ungrateful Dead

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