HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI

& JATINDER VERMA

ADAPTED BY

CAST

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

ANTONY BUNSEE
HARJINDER

KRUPA PATTANI

DIMPLE / LALLI FARISHTA

Trained: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and University of Exeter. Stage: Dracula, Derby Playhouse; Revengers Tragedy (tour), The White Devil (tour); Homebody Kabul (Cheek by Jowel); A Passsage to India (Shared Experience) For the RSC:The Odyssey, Tamburlaine, The School of Night, Midnights Children and The Histories Company. (2006-8) For Tara Arts: The Government Inspector, Oedipus, Pinocchio Gone Asia, The Merchant of Venice. TV Includes: Hollyoaks, My Family and Eastenders. Film: Get The Picture, Dorian Gray, Sex and the City 2, Jadoo.

Trained at Drama Studio London. Theatre includes: Twelfth Night (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre), Masters Are You Mad? (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre), Bollywood Cinderella (Tara Arts), dinnerladies: second helpings (UK Tour), Moonfleece (Riverside Studios and UK tour), dinnerladies (UK Tour), Starfish (London Tour/Y Touring), Lichentongue (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) Unzipped (Young Vic/ Talawa), Handful of Henna (Sheffield Theatres), The Borrowers (MAC) and Child of the Divide (Polka Theatre/ Tamasha) TV includes: MI High and Casualty (BBC)

SAM KORDBACHEH DEVEN MODHA

VALMIKI

Sam trained at ALRA and during his time there he played Iago in Othello at the Sam Wanamaker Festival at Shakespeares Globe Theatre; Orsino in Twelfth Night, Ali Baba in Arabian Nights, Jacques in As You Like It and Blackmouth in Live Like Pigs. Theatre credits include: Terry Johnsons Hysteria with Theatre Royal Bath, Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, Mr Darling and Slightly in Peter Pan, Tim Allgood in Noises Off and Fausto in The Talented Mr Ripley at the Queens Theatre, Hornchurch. Sams TV credits include: Genie in the House for Nickelodeon.

KISHORE / MANJU

Deven trained at Birmingham School of Acting. Roles whilst training: Mephistopheles (Dr. Faustus); Mowgli (The Jungle Book). Since graduating, he has completed shooting on a feature film entitled Shoot Me directed by acclaimed German director Niko von Glasow (Palladio Film) due for release in 2013. He has worked with BBC Wales; performed at Trafalgar Studios (Mercury Fur, Greenhouse Theatre) and is a member of Tamasha Theatres Developing Artists programme.

MEHRISH YASIN
MARIAM / KOHLI

CAROLINE KILPATRICK
FROSINE / ASLAM

This is Mehrishs debut at Tara Arts. She trained at Drama Studio London, graduating last summer. Previous professional theatre credits include Fatima in Pentecost at St Leonards Shoreditch, which was nominated for the Off WestEnd Theatre Award for Best Ensemble Cast and Dinarzade in Arabian Nights at the Blue Orange Theatre. Other roles include Navenka in Once We Were Mothers and Hermione in The Winters Tale.

Caroline trained at RADA. Theatre includes: The Tempest and Hotbed, both Tara Arts; Innocence and Yerma, both at the Arcola; Stephen and the Sexy Partridge, Old Red Lion; Dance/Radio, Guilty, DryWrite, Latitude 2008 & 2010, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Hobsons Choice, Rel, The Death of Tintagel, SaltPeter at Peoples Show; The Love of the Nightingale for Rough Fiction. Film includes: Lady Teazle in The Invisible Woman which is released in 2013.

SOHINI ALAM
SINGER

DANYAL DHONDY
KEYBOARD

Sohini Alam is a British vocalist of Bangladeshi descent whose musical repertoire includes folk, patriotic, modern and traditional Bengali songs with a specialisation in Nazrul Sangeet. She has branched out into multi-lingual music in bands, dance, and theatre. A third generation vocalist, Sohini trained in music with Hiron Alam, Jannat Ara and Ferdous Ara. She is the lead vocalist for Khiyo and Kishon Khans Afro-Cuban-Bengali jazz band, Lokkhi Terra.

Danyal is a London-based composer and arranger. He has written two operas for premieres this year: Just So (Tte Tte Festival, directed by Jatinder Verma), and The Open Cage (The Yard, 5-7 Oct). He has made arrangements for OperaUpClose and Malm Opera, which led to a nomination for an Arts Foundation Award in Opera Composition. He has arranged string parts for albums including Sam Lees Mercury-nominated Ground of its Own, and composed three pieces for Kensington Chamber Orchestra.

HASSAN MOHYEDDIN
Hassan Mohyeddin is a tabla player, multi- percussionist and music producer. He hails from the Punjab School of Tabla, having trained for several years with tabla maestro, Ustad Lachhman Singh Seen. Hassan has a degree in music production and sound engineering from the London School of Sound and has worked as a professional musician for the last ten years. He has toured many countries, collaborating with artists including Nahid Siddiqui, Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan and Baluji Srivastav. He currently plays in London based bands Lokkhi Terra and Khiyo.
PERCUSSION

INTRODUCTION
Has there ever been a better time to revisit Molieres The Miser? Its King Louis XIV France. Louis emboldened Seventeenth century Paris, a Paris at the zenith of fashion, a city of architectural splendour, titillating gossip, and political intrigue. 2012. Our world spins on an axis of the financial, orbits the chaos of consumerism. We have crashed and burned, seemingly imprisoned by the free market. While the worlds may seem different human nature has changed little. But todays Indiawell, its trajectory is inexorably upward. Molieres Harpagon becomes Tara Arts Harjinder, and while the names change, the accents and a few references it is astonishing how crackling, how coruscatingly contemporary the narrative is, particularly given the moraes of modern, ebullient India. The Miser is my second collaboration with Jatinder Verma; the second of many. I was initially marked by Moliere 25 years ago, watching Liz Locheads stunning Scots translation of Tartuffe. Jatinder brought me The Miser, a play I had heard much about but had never seen produced. The humour, the politics, the challenge to theatrical convention; theres so much to love about Moliere. Giving words to Jatinder is a humbling and liberating experience. He assembles an excellent cast, superb musicians and somehow finds a way through the wrods. He lives, breathes and probably bleeds theatre. I have come to learn that given a script he lives, breathes and bleeds those words into theatre; and its theatre that I love.

HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI

WRITER / ADAPTATION

Hardeep Singh Kohli

Hardeep Singh Kohli, as well as being a seasoned reporter, comic, cook and presenter, has had an acclaimed career as a journalist and writer. His column in Scotland on Sunday saw him nominated twice for Scottish Columnist of the Year as well as articles for the Independent on Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. For BBC Radio 4 current series on Asians returning to India and BBC Radio 2 Hardeep at the Stand. For Channel 4 he wrote and presented the BAFTA award winning In search of the Tartan Turban. Hardeep has previously performed at Tara Theatre, with soldout audiences of his Edinburgh show Chat Masala, The Nearly Naked Chef and Indian Takeaway.

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
HARJINDER ANTONY BUNSEE DIMPLE / LALLI FARISHTA KRUPA PATTANI VALMIKI SAM KORBACHEH KISHORE / MANJU DEVEN MODHA MARIAM / KOHLI MEHRISH YASIN FROSINE / ASLAM CAROLINE KILPATRICK SINGER SOHINI ALAM KEYBOARD DANYAL DHONDY PERCUSSION HASAN MOHYEDDIN TRANSLATION PATRICIA DREYFUS WRITER / ADAPTATION HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI CO-WRITER / DIRECTOR JATINDER VERMA DESIGN CLAUDIA MAYER LIGHTING DESIGN HOWARD HUDSON MUSICAL DIRECTOR DANYAL DHONDY COMPOSITION SOHINI ALAM COMPOSITION HASAN MOHYEDDIN CHOREOHRAPHY SHREYA KUMAR PRODUCTION MANAGER CHRIS MUSGRAVE SCENIC ARTIST MADELINE HERBERT COSTUME SUPERVISOR HILARY LEWIS COSTUME ASSISTANT ELIN KARNER STAGE MANAGER KELSI LEWIS ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER BETH DUNCAN PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS TALULA SHEPPARD ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JATINDER VERMA ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - DESIGN CLAUDIA MAYER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JONATHAN KENNEDY MARKETING OFFICER AMY BRIGGS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER INE VAN RIET THEATRE ADMINISTRATOR MARTINA FERRY FINANCE OFFICER XIAO HONG (SHARON) ZHANG MARKETING INTERN MARION BUI PRESS AGENT DAVID BURNS david@davidburnspr.com

CAST

MUSICIANS CREATIVES

PRODUCTION

TARA ARTS TEAM

SPECIAL THANKS
NAUSHABA KHAN-LEVY FRONT OF HOUSE VOLUNTEERS ALEXANDRA WYATT BEN STEVENS STEVE WILSON ANDREAS AYLING SARAH-LOUISE MUTTON MATTHEW SCHNEIDER JOHN GOBLIRSCH CHARLOTTE DERANEK EMMELINE HARRIS BROADWAY THEATRE - BARKING MARTIN ROBERTS, BSL INTERPRETER JACK HYLANDS CEREN BAYRAKTAR ALRA

CREATIVES
MOLIERE
WRITER (LAVARE)

Molire (1622-1673) was a French playwright who is considered to be one of the greatest comic dramatists. His style blended comedy with Commedia dellarte and controversially touched upon social issues of his time. His masterpieces include: Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope), Tartuffe ou LImposteur (Tartuffe or the Imposter), and LAvare (The Miser). PATRICIA DREYFUS
TRANSLATOR

I first became interested in the subtleties of translation versus interpretation whilst writing my dissertation on the French and Italian versions of Melvilles Moby Dick at Sussex University. When I was asked by Tara to work on The Miser, I rose to the challenge of staying faithful to the spirit of Moliere. JATINDER VERMA
WRITER / DIRECTOR

Jatinder Verma is co-founder and Artistic Director of Tara Arts. Most recently Jatinder directed the Just So Opera for the Tte Tte Festival. In 2011 he directed Bollywood Cinderella, Tara Arts Christmas pantomime, Alex Wheatles Uprising which toured the UK and The Mysteries with ALRA to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible touring junior schools. In 2010 he directed Gandhi in London at The Temple Church and Miranda by Farroukh Dhondy for the Edinburgh Festival. In 2009 he directed Hanif Kureishis The Black Album for the National Theatre and UK Tour. He first worked at the National in 1989, with an acclaimed version of Molieres Tartuffe. CLAUDIA MAYER
DESIGN

Claudia Mayer trained with Percy Harris at Motley and worked freelance in Opera, Ballet and Theatre. Work for Tara Arts includes: Miranda, The Black Album (costume), The Tempest, The Marriage of Figaro, An Enemy of the People, The Merchant of Venice, Journey to the West (a trilogy), 2001 a Ramayan Odyssey, two large-scale events in Trafalgar Square. Exhibition Design includes: The Ramayana: Love and Valour in Indias Greatest Epic at the British Library. For BBC Radio 4 an adaptation of The Mahhabharata with Jatinder Verma. HOWARD HUDSON
LIGHTING DESIGN

Howard studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. He won the Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design in 2011 and 2012. Productions for Tara include, Miranda, Peoples Romeo, Bollywood Cinderella. Other recent projects include, Mack and Mabel, The Illusion (Southwark Playhouse), Strong Arm (503 and Old Vic New Voices), Cornelius (Finborough), 1936 (Sadlers Wells).

HAVELI Mansion SMILING GANDHIS Rupee notes GHAZALS A poetic song KISMET Fate AGGAR BATI Incense JAAN Soul BHAGAVAD-GITA Ancient hindu scripture TAMASHA A grand show PUKKA Complete, fully formed ANNA Penny, the smallest denomination of Indian currency NEEM An evergreen tree of the mahagony family DANDA stick, but also a crude description... LAKHS One hundred thousand PARVEEN BABI Glamorous hindi film actress commonly regarded as the most beautiful of all Hindi film stars HEMA MALINI One of Indias leading actresses and a classically trained dancer. A more attainable beauty than.. BABI The girl next door. AHWAIRYA RAI The modern image of film beauty, a renowned dancer and former Miss World CHUA Mouse, Tiny MA-BAAP Mother and father MASSI Aunt, mothers sister ALLAH-KASAM An oath sworn to Allah ALMIRAH Wardrobe CHAPPAL Sandal KUNDALINI Life-force PENJI Sister FARISHTA Angel A KADU Pumpkin MELA Fair DHARAVI Main slum area of Mumbai TANGA-WALLAH The buggy driver RISHTA Marriage arrangement ISHQ Love VAKILS Lawyers IZZAT Honour GULI-DANDA Stick-and-stone game SABZIS Vegetables KHEER Rice pudding KHICHLDI Rice and lentil gruel usually eaten when ill

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TARA ARTS
Our company has been a catalyst for cross-cultural theatre since 1977. Our artistic vision - global theatre for local audiences - aims to engage diverse artists and audiences at our London venue, Tara Theatre, and on tour in the creative crossing of imaginative borders. In 1989, we were the first Asian company to be invited to present our work at the National Theatre with Molires Tartuffe directed by Artistic Director and co-founder, Jatinder Verma. Renowned for our adaptations of Asian and European classics, childrens shows and new writing. Recent successes include The Black Album (2009), Bollywood Cinderella (2011) and Uprising (2010 - 2012). Kanjoos the Miser has been made possible thanks to generous donations. If you would like to make a donation contact Development Officer, Ine Van Riet 020 8333 4457 or email ine@tara-arts.com

REDEVELOPMENT...

Our long-held dream - to create in Earlsfield a beautiful, smallscale theatre with a distinctly East-West flavour - is on the road to becoming a reality. We will squeeze more space out of our much-loved home to create a larger, more comfortable theatre, as well as a new rehearsal room for artist development. The refurbished Tara will be eco-efficient, with ventilation, heating and lighting treading as carbon-neutral as possible. Comfort levels for our audience in the theatre, foyer and bar will be greatly improved. These changes will be set within a building which combines the textures and materials of East and West to reflect and express our vision of global theatre for local audiences in Earlsfield. A generous award from Arts Council England has started us on our way. We now need to raise the remaining funds to begin construction next year, for completion in 2014.

LOCAL SUGGESTIONS
Looking for somewhere to get dinner after the show or just a drink? Earlsfield boasts a range of local eateries, restaurants and pubs. Global eating on your doorstep! NAZMINS (Indian) 396 Garratt Lane | 020 8946 4221 NABRASA (Brazliian) 505 Garratt Lane | 020 8871 3875 AMARANTH (Thai) 346 Garratt Lane | 020 8874 9036 HALFWAY HOUSE (Pub) 521 Garratt Lane | 020 8946 2788 BAR 366 (Cocktail bar) 366 Garratt Lane | 020 8944 9591 HANNAHS PLACE (Restaurant) 350 Garratt Lane | 020 8877 0799

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Architects

For further information on the building plans or how you can help contact Jo Cotrell jo@joecotrell.com or visit the website visit the website www.tara-arts.com

Kanjoos Miser Makhi Choos Flea Sucking Chamcha Lackey, Yes-man Bevkoof! Fool! Banda Bloke Buss! Stop! Toba, Toba! (Exclamation, warding off evil) Chi chi! (Expression of disgust) Zaruur! Absolutely! Kameena! Bastard, miser, skinflint Goonda thug Shantih-shantih, bhai calm down, brother Hai-rabba! Oh my god! Arey Va va va! (Appreciative exclamation) Chuup! Quiet! Lafunga! Layabout! Badmaash..! Buffoon..! Deykhiey ji Understand please Thapald Slap Bilkul! damn right!

KANJOOS - THE MISER WILL BE TOURING THE UK IN 2013!

DONT MISS OUR CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME

Whittington goes bollywood

5 DEC 2012 - 5 JAN 2013

Dick

by Hardeep Singh Kohli

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