By Satinder Kaur Chohan Suraj Amarjit Bassan Lal Ravin J Ganatra

B Y SATINDER KAUR CHOHAN CAST A Thin Red Line - 2007 Kali seeks out strong individual B Y SATINDER KAUR CHOHAN Suraj Amarjit Bassan Asian women writers who challenge Lal Ravin J Ganatra our perceptions through original Baba Bhasker Patel and thought provoking theatre. Chandni Goldy Notay The company has established a Dhani Gurpreet Singh Deadeye - 2006 reputation for presenting work Director Janet Steel Designer Emma Wee that takes audiences on Lighting Jenny Cane unpredictable journeys that Composer Sayan Kent entertain, excite and inspire. Assistant Director Natalie Ibu Company Stage Manager Alex Weller Deputy Stage Manager Mandeep Kaur Aujla Since its inception in 1990, Kali’s connections Paper Thin - 2006 within the Asian community have made it a General Manager Christopher Corner natural home for women who are seeking new Dramaturgy Penny Gold and Janet Steel ways to express and explore the issues and Press Representation Suman Bhuchar Marketing Dan Pursey @ Mobius human interest stories of the Diaspora. Graphic Design Luke Wakeman Kali aims to present the distinct perspective Photography Robert Day and experience of Asian women to people Set built by David Mitchell from all backgrounds and to celebrate that Women’s costumes made by Sarah Floyd Bells - 2005 richness and diversity. First performance: 23 April 2008 at Contact Theatre, Manchester No idea is too small, no statement too large. Kali would like to thank Jon McGrath, Amanda Roberts and We actively encourage our writers and audience everyone at Manchester Contact Theatre for all their help to reinvent and reshape the theatrical agenda. and support with mounting Zameen. Through our new writer development Thanks to Richard Lee at The Jerwood Space, Martin Witts programmes, we provide core resources for and all the Arts Theatre, Philip Cheng and all those whose help Chaos - 2005 writers new to the theatre through workshops, came too late to be mentioned here. dramaturgical support and public readings. Special thanks to Paulette Randell and all Special thanks also to Beesh Zytynski those involved in presenting the initial and Mark Sumner of Bete Limited, readings, the workshop production and the East Sussex for donation of Artistic Director Janet Steel Decibel presentation of Zameen. the fertilizer sprayer General Manager Christopher Corner Subsidised rehearsal facilities provided by the Media Partner Board of Trustees: Shelley King (Chair), Elizabeth Cuffy, Penny Gold, Shobu Kapoor, Shyama Calcutta Kosher - 2003 Perera, Shiroma Silva, Jocelyn Watson Kali was founded by Rukhsana Ahmad and Rita Wolf. The development of Zameen was supported by Kali is funded by Arts Council England Kali Theatre Co. 18 Rupert Street London W1D 6DE 020 7494 9100 [email protected] www.kalitheatre.co.uk Special thanks to Mr Sunny and Mrs H Sikri of Little India, Ltd Co. No. 2583595 Registered Charity No. 1071733 Southall for the loan of the Charka (cotton spinning wheel). Photos (left): Robert Day, Bob Workman Programme Photos: Satinder Kaur Chohan Sock ‘em With Honey - 2002 Leaflet photos: Emma Wee and Satinder Kaur Chohan Mandeep Kaur Aujla DSM Janet Steel DIRECTOR FerTILISerS, PESTICIdeS COmpANY BIOgrAPHIES A British Asian, Mandeep graduated from Central Since 2003 Janet has been Artistic Director of Kali. And SUICIdeS School of Speech and Drama, with a BA Hons in She began her career as an actress; theatre work Theatre Practice and Stage Management. Prior includes: Cinders, A Colder Climate (Royal Court During the 1960s and 1970s, an American-influenced Green Satinder Kaur Chohan WRITER Dead? (BBC Radio 4/World Service). studies include Theatre Studies, Drama and Fine Theatre), Blood Wedding (Half Moon), Romeo and The Chauhan tribe is said to originate from a Ravin recently launched his production company, Arts at Liverpool University and Surrey School of Juliet (Sherman Theatre & Albany Empire), Oedipus Revolution in Punjab replaced traditional farming techniques with mythological fire atop Mount Abu in India. www.gurujiproductions.com Performing and Dance, derived from an artistic Rex (Tara Arts). TV includes: An English Christmas, and graphical background from the age of 13. The Bride, Gems, The Refuge, Shalom Salaam. Janet Somehow, my branch made it down the Goldy Notay CHANDNI intensive modern practices. High yield seeds, chemical fertilisers, mountainside, via the Land of the Five Rivers and Recent credits: Tales From The Brothers Grimm, As began directing in 1988 as assistant to Tessa A graduate of the George Brown Drama School in lush green fields of Punjab, all the way to Southall, A Mother Of A Brown Boy, Taikonaut!, The Schneideman at Loose Change Theatre, producing Toronto, Canada. Theatre: Saheeda in Rani pesticides and machinery dramatically increased productivity and West London, where I was the first member of my Deranged Marriage, The Libertines, Miscellaneous UK premiers at BAC by Spanish authors, where she Moorthy’s Handful of Henna (Sheffield Crucible immediate family born in Britain. After studying Festival, Stars in the Morning Sky. Through her directed her first full-length piece,White Biting Theatre 2006/2008), Mindy in There’s Something transformed India from a food-deficit nation into a self-sufficient English Language and Literature at King’s College recent study of theatre practice, Mandeep Dog. Directing includes: Behzti (The Birmingham About Simmy (Rifco Arts/Theatre Royal Stratford London and post-graduate studies at Yale University embraces an immense interest and exploration in Rep); April in Paris, Bretevski Street, A Hard Rain, Top one. Punjab became the ‘Breadbasket of India’. East), Chandni in Zameen (Kali at Soho Theatre in the US, I edited the British Asian style and culture ethnic theatre and performances; targeting Girls (Northampton Royal Theatre), Exodus Studio), Lata in The Deranged Marriage (Rifco Arts magazine 2nd Generation. I have worked extensively realistic yet challenging issues we face in life. She (Millennium Mysteries at Coventry Belgrade), 2004/2005), Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet in journalism, publishing, broadcasting, is currently pioneering a form of renewal and Brecht’s Antigone, The Mother, Orpheus However, over the next two decades, the revolution turned sour. (Bermuda Arts Festival), The Moaner in The Vagina documentary research and new media, often around admission in this field of work and is promoting a Descending, An Ideal Husband, Romeo & Juliet, The Monologues (Bermuda Arts Festival), The Wife in Overproduction exhausted the soil, excessive use of fertilisers South Asian issues and am currently developing a greater existence through teaching and creating Knockey, Serious Money (Rose Bruford College). For Blood Wedding (Toronto Fringe), Asha in East is not collection of short stories around Punjabi Desi more fellowship and productions. Kali: Sock ‘em with Honey by Bapsi Sidhwa, just East (Leicester Haymarket), and Anna in Lovin’ It rendered crops more vulnerable to pests, while drought and culture. In 2006, I was selected as a writer for the Calcutta Kosher by Shelley Silas, Chaos and Paper (Yorkshire Women Theatre). Film and TV: Nina in Jenny Cane LIGHTING DESIGNER Emerging Writers’ Residency at Edinburgh’s Traverse Thin by Azma Dar, Deadeye by Amber Lone and A deforestation disrupted Punjab’s fragile eco-systems. Holby City (BBC), Priya in Mira Nair’s My Own Jenny was born in Sri Lanka and has designed Theatre, where I began developing my second play Thin Red Line by Sonali Bhattacharyya. Country (US Feature Film), Mrs. Roper in A lighting for productions throughout the world. Her The Beauty Room. In 2007, with support from Arts Heartbeat (Disney series regular), Diane in Noddy lighting for music theatre productions, including Emma Wee DESIGNER Council England, I went to Sangrur and Bathinda in In the 1990s, First World nations via the WTO and IMF drove India (BBC) and Yasmine in Death Threat (Toronto Film Sondheim musicals in Leicester and London, has Originally trained as a sculptor Emma works as a southern Punjab to research and develop Zameen. Festival Award Winner). Goldy recently appeared as been seen around Britain. West End productions designer and director in theatre, opera and site towards rapid trade liberalisation. India flung open its doors to My first trip to Punjab’s cotton fields coincided with a Bollywood Dancer in a Gordon Haskell Music include several for Lloyd Webber and Cameron specific collaborations. Pastdesign work includes; the beginning of the sowing season; the second trip Video and has presented on TV for ATN. Mackintosh as well as spoken theatre. Her theatre Die Lustige Witwe, (Vlaamse Opera - Ghent), multinational corporations and agrochemical companies rushed in time for the harvest. productions range from Shakespeare to Thérèse Raquin (Opera-te, Linbury Theatre ROH, Bhasker Patel BABA in to monopolise seed, chemical and fertiliser markets in Punjab. Amarjit Bassan SURAJ pantomime; from Sheridan to Alan Bennett in Covent Garden), Swan Breaks (Robert Hylton Urban Theatre: Royal Hunt of the Sun, Playing with Fire, A Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and theatres from Edinburgh to Plymouth as well as Classicism), Fresh (RHUC/Channel 4), How to Beat a Map of the World, Wicked Yaar, Tartuffe & The Magic Drama. Theatre includes There’s Something About abroad. Opera lighting includes work for Scottish Giant (Unicorn Theatre) Iron, (Contact Theatre – Seeking to extract higher yields and profits from the depleted Carpet, No Zealot Like a Convert, Hebron, (National Simmy

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