Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

Bhatti: Plays One (eBook, ePUB)

Besharam; Behzti;Behud; Fourteen; Khandan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam (Shameless) broke box office records when it was produced in 2001. Her second play Behzti (Dishonour) won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2005. Behzti rocked the world of theatre when it was cancelled after protestsin Birmingham, forcing the playwright into hiding. The play's closure sparked an international debate about offence and freedom of expression. In 2014, Khandan(Family) was co-produced by the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. This is her first collected works' volume.

Behsharam (Shameless) Two daughters, two mothers, one father, a cardboard cut-out and a foul-mouthed granny - a household at war and a family which will do anything to protect its secrets.

Behzti (Dishonour) Past her prime, Min happily spends her life caring for her frail, vicious mother, Balbir. Today, for the first time in years, they're heading out to the local Sikh temple. In a community where public honour is paramount, is there any room for the truth?

Behud (Beyond Belief) A playwright attempts to make sense of her past by visitingthe darkest corners of her imagination. Inspired by the events surroundingBehzti, Behud is the compelling story of an artist struggling to be heard.

Fourteen. 1983. Brainbox Tina's parents are always shouting, her mum says she's developing too quickly and her best friend Sharon has a dark secret. Thirty years later, Tina's life hasn't turned out quite how it was supposed to...

Khandan (Family) Widowed matriarch Jeeto has a strong sense of her past and principles. She's spent her life working hard and making sacrifices for her children. But eldest son Pal isn't following in her footsteps. What happens when the legacy of a father collides with the dreams of his son?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783196296
• Artikelnr.: 41828874

Autorenporträt

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti writes for stage, screen and radio.

Her first play Behsharam broke box office records at Soho Theatre/Birmingham Rep. Her second play Behzti was sensationally closed after protests at the Birmingham Rep and sparked an international debate about freedom of expression. Behzti won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Other credits include Choir, Chichester Festival Theatre; Marriage Material, Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Rep; Scenes From Lost Mothers, Clean Break; A Kind of People, Royal Court Downstairs; Khandan, Royal Court Upstairs/Birmingham Rep; Behud, Soho Theatre/Coventry Belgrade; Silence, Donmar Warehouse; 846, Stratford East; Elephant, Birmingham Rep; Dishoom, Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre; Fourteen, Watford Palace Theatre; the feature film Everywhere And Nowhere; DCI Stone, Radio 4; Londonee, Rich Mix; Dead Meat, Channel 4 and An Enemy Of The People, BBC. She was a core writer on The Archers, part of the team who created the ground-breaking Helen and Rob domestic violence story and has written for EastEnders and Hollyoaks.

She is developing various projects for stage and screen including original series Masala for Hometeam/Universal, as well as Brando's Bride by Sarah Broughton as a feature for Ffilm Cymru and writing her hit show Scenes From Lost Mothers as a film. Baby, a new play for Clean Break, will be produced at Brixton House in 2026.

She is a member of BAFTA, a trustee of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, an ambassador for Birth Companions, a charity that works to improve the lives of women and babies who experience inequality and disadvantage and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.