Kali seeks out strong individual women writers with a South Asian background who challenge our River On Fire 2000 perceptions through original and thought provoking theatre. We regularly tour new plays across the UK while our Writer Development Programmes provide resources to writers new to the theatre through workshops, Sock ‘em With Honey 2002 dramaturgical support and public readings. Kali aims to present the distinct perspective and experience of - Asian women to people from all backgrounds and to celebrate Black i its richness and diversity. No idea is too small, no statement By Sharon Raizada too large. We actively encourage our writers and audience to Calcutta Kosher 2003 reinvent and reshape the theatrical agenda. www.kalitheatre.co.uk C a s t Kali’s is now looking for new scripts for its next Writer Development Programme - Rose Gina Abolins Black i Bells 2005 Chosen writers will join Kali’s fortnightly writing workshops, By Sharon Raizada Naz Waleed Akhtar and receive dramaturgical support from guest writers and dramaturgs, culminating in a public reading of their work. The Cate Louise Bangay deadline for sending us your draft script is 10th March 2011. Find our more at www.kalitheatre.co.uk Director Poonam Brah Artistic Director ...... Janet Steel Designer Alice Hoult Chaos 2005 General Manager...... Christopher Corner Audience Development Manager ...... Binita Walia Lighting William Reynolds Board of Trustees: Shelley King (Chair), Amy Beeson, Elizabeth Sound Hamid Seifalian Cuffy, Penny Gold, Hena Miah, Anouk Mishti, Shiroma Silva, Movement Elizabeth Ballinger Jocelyn Watson, Elizabeth Youard. Kali was founded in 1990 by Rukhsana Ahmad and Rita Wolf. Company Stage Manager Jessica Thanki Deadeye 2006 Kali Theatre Co. 20 Rupert Street W1D 6DF Production Manager Mark Stiven 020 7494 9100 [email protected] Assistant Stage Manager Philippa Robinson Ltd Co. No. 2583595 Registered Charity No. 1071733 Kali is a member of ITC and the London Hub of Sustained Theatre See www.sustainedtheatre.org.uk General Manager Christopher Corner Press Representation Juliet Rees Paper Thin 2006 Set built by Martin Field & Factory Settings BSL Signer Jeni Draper Photography Robert Workman & Alice Hoult Coming next from Kali... Graphic Design Luke Wakeman A Thin Red Line 2007 For Oval House Theatre

Director of Theatre Ben Evans Theatre Manager Sarah Cook Head of Press and Marketing Debbie Vannozzi Zameen 2008 Technical Manager Francis Watson

First performance of this production: 19 October 2010 at Oval House Theatre Workman Kali would like to thank everyone at Oval House for all their help and AD2050 2009 support with presenting Black-i Robert

Day, Thanks to Andy Cooper, Mediacoms Ltd (www.mediacoms.co.uk) for the ariel, and Stuck at home all day, Asha escapes to the India of her all those whose help came too late to be mentioned here. imagination. Then suddenly Mahatma Gandhi and the Hindu gods Shiva and Kali arrive for tea and cakes! This witty, playful and Robert poignant play asks is it better to be sane or happy? Black-i was developed through Kali’s Writer Development Programme and was given its first public reading at Kali’s Talk Back season at Rich Mix in May 2009. Many Another Paradise 2009 24 November - 18 December Chhabra, thanks to all those involved in the development and initial reading of Black-i. 020 7503 1646 Anand 27 Arcola Street London E8 2DJ Find out more at www.kalitheatre.co.uk Photos:

Behna 2010 Black-i Company Biographies

Black-i is about not doing what you’re told, and the excitement and Gina Abolins Rose Elizabeth Ballinger Needles Dance), two Shakespeare T.I.E. Hamid Seifalian Sound Designer seasons (Arts Educational). Costume Gina graduated this year from East 15 Movement Director Hamid has been an electronic music risk of going your own way. design: Playing God (Deafinitely Theatre), Acting School. Her roles whilst training A movement coach at RADA (specialising producer since 1995 and first performed Design for Dance (Royal Academy of included The Girl in A Night Out, Kate in The in Animal Studies) and Mountview, and a on stage at Warwick University with the Dance), Dreams Come Out To Play (Knavish My mother is Jewish, my father is Hindu, my brother is Muslim and Gut Girls, Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost visiting tutor at MMU School of Acting, group 4UNO. He was a co-founder of the Speech), Macbeth (Community20), Edward and Hero in Much Ado About Nothing. She the Drama Centre and Guildhall School of music and visual arts collective, Persistent my husband is Christian. I’m British and a Londoner. Black-i aims to II (Ohio University). Film; Assistant has recently finished performing at the Music & Drama, where she gained an MA in Deviants putting on shows at the Trinity, Art Director on Alice (dir. Marianne make sense of this melting pot by telling a story. Cambridge Shakespeare Festival where she Movement Training for Actors. As Movement Q club and Happiness Stans, culminating Elliot), and art department assistant on played Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Director; Fup (NT Studio), Double Dutch in their own festival, Wadstock ’99. Wreckers (dir. Dictynna Hood). I started from the idea of two different people – both teenagers under Katherine in Henry V, facing the challenge (Kali @Tristan Bates), Someone Who’ll He then started an electro-acoustic of outdoor theatre, come rain or shine. Gina Watch Over Me (Barons Court), Work project, Vesl with fellow musician Graham Writer a lot of pressure – meeting on a roof above London at night. Naz is is thrilled to be joining Kali Theatre, and is (Courtyard), As You Like It and others (Vienna Sharon Raizada Wakefield. This is Hamid’s latest theatrical Muslim and Rose is English. They’re both Londoners but from quite looking forward to tackling the role of Rose. Children’s Theatre), Skunk (Soho) and A graduate of the MA in Playwriting at sound design, having worked with Poonam final year shows at RADA and Mountview. Birmingham University, Sharon’s work Brah as a sound designer in the past and on separate worlds. Naz is from the working class Bangladeshi community Waleed Akhtar Naz As Assistant Movement Director: includes After (Hampstead Theatre in last year’s Double Dutch Expresso. February 2010 for Angle Theatre’s Start of East London while Rose from the moneyed white class of Mayfair. Recent theatre: The lead in the UK premier Rhinoceros (Royal Court) and As You Like Night – QuadrANGLE) and Lady Play of Betrayed, the award winning Off- It (Watford Palace). Elizabeth also teaches Mark Stiven Both are locked in their own worlds, but this chance meeting in the (BBC Radio 4). Sharon has also produced Broadway play (Glasgow Tron), Screwface movement in 1-1 sessions. Production Manager a number of award-winning short films. middle of the night changes their lives. (Tristan Bates), Masculine Law (Tara Studios/ Mark trained at Central School of Speech Big Chill Festival), Polar Bears (Edinburgh Poonam Brah Director and Drama where he worked on a number Festival), Gladiator Games (Germany) and Lotus Beauty (Gate Theatre), Young America William Reynolds of productions both within college and All the good stuff happens at night and the really bad stuff in daylight – Lighting Designer rehearsed readings at The Tricycle. He (Northampton Theatres), Double Dutch outside including Generation, Victory by which I think happens quite a lot when you’re young. I was interested in just finished playing Essad in the screen (Tristan Bates), Unzipped (Maria Theatre, William trained at the Motley Theatre Howard Barker and The Doctor’s Daughter Design School. Recent lighting designs making one character English, rich and West London and one Bengali, adaptation of Salmon Fishing in The Yemen ), Daring Pairings (Hampstead tour. Mark has also worked at BAC, Royal (Release 2012). Other film and TV work: Theatre), Tony (Hackney Empire), include Daredevas (Southbank Centre), Albert Hall, Sadler’s Wells and Cambridge struggling and East London, as this reflects two things – racial tensions Doctors, Law and Order: UK, Dustbin Baby Borderlines (Royal Court), A Sort Of Nuit d’Electronique et d’Opera (Theatre Theatre. Productions have included Royal de Wallonie, Belgium), and Pulse in London today, with differences in class and wealth, and also where I’m (International Emmy winner), Lipstikka and Homecoming (Birmingham Rep), and Bells Punchdrunk’s Masque of the Red Death, UK Film Council short Tonight. (Southwark Playhouse & UK Tour). Poonam (The Place). Set & lighting designs include Jingo-A Farce of War, Chicago the Musical, coming from, as half Asian and half white. was an artistic associate at Theatre Royal Otieno and Blood Wedding (Southwark Edward Scissorhands, The Snowman Louise Bangay Cate Stratford East, has directed for the new Playhouse), Saturday Night (Arts Theatre), & the International Ballroom Dancing Moonfleece (National Tour). Set, lighting Theatre: ’s productions of writing programme at , Kali Competition. Since Graduating from Black-i is about the clash of parents and kids in London today and the and projection designs include Waiting Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester) and Rock Theatre’s New Writing Festivals and for Central, Mark has pursued a freelance career (Southbank Centre), La Boheme (Palestinian huge pressures that are on kids from widely differing communities. ‘n’ Roll (Royal Court & Duke of York’s ), the Royal Court International Residency. in Technical Stage Management. Recently Tour) and Palestine Aloud (Cadogan Hall). Disappearing (Arcola Theatre), Voyage of Poonam was Assistant Director to Richard Mark has been touring with Matthew The story deals with the powerlessness of kids today who may feel they Projection designs include Prima Donna Destiny (Arts Theatre), Summer Begins Jones on Hobson’s Choice (Young Vic), Bourne’s Swan Lake as Technical Swing. (Sadlers Wells), The Gambler (Royal Opera have to carry a knife, and how the selfishness of adults can drastically (Southwark Playhouse), The Lesson (Arcola), Trevor Nunn on Skellig and Sean Holmes House), Das Rheingold (National Reisopera, Mercy Fine (Clean Break at Southwark on Julius Caesar (RSC). She participated in Jessica Thanki Stage Manager affect their children – whether it’s a white world, an Asian world, or any Holland) and Home (Theatre Royal Bath). Playhouse). For the RSC: Poor Beck (Other the NT Studio Directors Programme and After a BA in Theatre Production, Jessica other. Teenagers get a really bad press on the whole, but in this play Place & Soho Theatre), Macbeth, King Lear is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater did a three month placement at The Philippa Robinson ASM it’s the parents who need ASBOs. (RST & Albery), Ben Hur (BAC), Romeo and Directors Lab, NY. Thirteenth St. Repertory Theatre, New York Juliet (Exeter Northcott), Mouth to Mouth Pip is currently in the second year of a Set as the Literary Manager’s Assistant. Stage (Royal Court/Albery), Still Life (One-Woman Alice Hoult Designer Design for Stage and Screen degree at the Manager for Asian Women Talk Back, (Kali I hope Black-i shows the possibilities on offer if we do cross boundaries Show, London Play Festival), Self Accusation A multidisciplinary artist working University of the Arts London. Previous at Rich Mix), The Maid, (Odd Man Out and attempt what we’re not allowed. It looks at the interaction between (Sadler’s Wells), Nascendo (Tricycle), Horace, with illustration, painting, installation, work includes Stage Manager for Jest Productions at Rich Mix), Double Espresso Katerina, The Cenci (all Lyric Hammersmith), printmaking and design for performance. End Productions (Jermyn Street Theatre). (Theatre Waah at Tristan Bates), Measure races and the pressures on kids in contemporary UK, but it is, at heart, Miss Julie (Young Vic) Rick’s Bar Casablanca With Anoushka Athique she established Other positions include Props Technician for Measure, The Oval House (BADA), Maybe an unconventional love story set on a roof behind Selfridges at night. (Whitehall Theatre), The Vanek Plays (Lyric Little Spoon, an artistic practice whose on The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre), as well Father, (Talawa at Young Vic), Behna (Kali & Prague). TV & film: Holby City, Doctors recent work includes: Tears Dreams and as designing various shows in the South- Theatre site specific co-production with (Nominated, British Soap Awards 2008), Memories (Barking Youth Theatre), Doubtful West. In the future, she hopes to work Birmingham Rep & Black Country Touring), Holby Blue, The Bill, Imogen’s Face, Bliss, Sound, (Antenna Studios). For Kali: Another in the theatre and film industry as a AD2050, (Kali workshop at Young Vic) and Sharon Raizada Trainer, Models Required. Paradise. Other designs: Drink Me (Pins and production designer and draftsman. It Hasn’t Happened Yet (Liz Carr).