GURPREET KAUR BHATTI
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Plays by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Behsharam (Shameless) |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | Birmingham Rep Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | 2001 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: 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. | ||||
Behzti (Dishonour) |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2004 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: 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. Marlowe, Times | ||||