Tamasha Theatre Company
Tamasha is a British theatre company founded in 1989 by director Kristine Landon-Smith and actor / writer Sudha Bhuchar with a mission to bring contemporary drama of Asian influence to the British stage.
The company is best known for its award-winning 1996 comedy East is East as well as Balti Kings and Bollywood-inspired musicals Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral and Wuthering Heights.
Among the many well-known British Asian artists to have worked with the company are actors Parminder Nagra, Jimi Mistry, Nina Wadia, Chris Bisson, Ameet Chana, Nabil Elouahabi, Ila Arun and Zohra Sehgal; writers Ayub Khan-Din, Abhijat Joshi and Deepak Verma; and composers Shri and Nitin Sawhney.
Since 2002, the company has run Tamasha Developing Artists - a professional development programme for emerging and established writers, directors, designers and performers.
Productions
- 2010 The House of Bilquis Bibi by Sudha Bhuchar
- 2009 Wuthering Heights by Deepak Verma; music by Sheema Mukherjee and Felix Cross; lyrics by Felix Cross
- 2008 Sweet Cider by Em Hussain
- 2008 Lyrical MC by Sita Brahmachari
- 2006 Child of the Divide by Sudha Bhuchar
- 2006 A Fine Balance adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith from the novel by Rohinton Mistry
- 2005 The Trouble with Asian Men created by Sudha Bhuchar, Kristine Landon-Smith and Louise Wallinger
- 2003 All I Want is a British Passport by Nadim Sawahla
- 2003 Strictly Dandia by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith
- 2002 Ryman and the Sheikh by Sudha Bhuchar, Kristine Landon-Smith, Chris Ryman, Rehan Sheikh and Richard Vranch
- 2001 Ghostdancing by Deepak Verma based on Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin
- 1999 Balti Kings by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan
- 1998 Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral adapted from the film Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! by Kristine Landon-Smith and Sudha Bhuchar
- 1997 A Tainted Dawn by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith
- 1996 East is East by Ayub Khan-Din
- 1995 A Yearning adapted from Federico García Lorca’s Yerma by Ruth Carter
- 1994 A Shaft of Sunlight by Abhijat Joshi
- 1992 Women of the Dust by Ruth Carter
- 1991 House of the Sun adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith from Meira Chand’s novel
- 1989 Untouchable adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith from the novel of the same title by Mulk Raj Anand