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GURPREET KAUR BHATTI
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Gurpreet Bhatti was born in Watford. She studied modern languages at Bristol University and has worked extensively as a journalist, refuge worker and actress. Her first play, BEHSHaRaM was commissioned by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. This led to her writing regularly for EaSTENDERS and for WESTWaY (BBC World Service). Her half hour film DEaD MEaT was produced by Channel 4 as part of the Dogma TV season. Other credits include CROSSROaDS (Carlton) and TWO OLD LaDIES (Leicester Haymarket). Gurpreet has series ideas in development with Carlton Television and the BBC and is also under commission to Theatre Royal Stratford East. BEHSHaRaM opened at Soho Theatre in October 2001 before transferring to the Birmingham Rep.
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Behhudth (Beyond Belief) Behsharam (Shameless) Behzti (Dishonour)Behhudth (Beyond Belief)
In Behud, a playwright attempts to make sense of the past by visiting the darkest corners of her imagination. It's a "playful and provocative response to the events surrounding Behzti, and the story of an artist struggling to be heard."
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Top of PageBehsharam (Shameless)
Two daughters, two mothers, one father, a cardboard cut-out and a foul-mouthed granny a household at war with itself, and a family which will do anything to protect its' secrets. Behsharam (Shameless) follows second generation sisters, Jaspal and Sati, through the fantasies, dysfunctions and obsessions of their extraordinary extended family. Set in Birmingham, this is a bold, disturbing and at times hilarious exploration of the British asian experience.
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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2001 978-1840022490
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Top of PageBehzti (Dishonour)
This new play by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti is nothing if not provocative. Set in a gurdwara, or Sikh temple, it has already caused a furore among Birmingham's Sikh community, whose senior members called - unsuccessfully - for a rewrite. It's not hard to see what perturbed them. Bhatti shows thievery, corruption, malicious gossip and sexual abuse taking place alongside worship in the temple. Hypocrisy is rife, cruelty and subjugation tolerated and the truth suppressed in the world she creates. It is a world where appearance and respectability take precedence over personal happiness, and behzti, or dishonour, has terrible consequences.
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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004 978-1840025224
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