Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: August 26, 2019 12:45:16 am
Toil and trouble
Jatinder Verma, co-founder of the UK’s first Asian theatre group, on the need for diversity and his play, Macbeth
Theatre group Tara Arts was born out of rage. The murder of a 17-year-old Indian boy in Southall, West London, in 1976 had ignited the Asian community in Britain. The Asian civil liberties movement fanned out like wildfire across major cities in the UK. Brown voices rose to be heard. Based in London, Tara Arts took to telling stories. Their first was an adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Sacrifice, a powerful narrative that attacked religious bigotry, at Battersea Arts Centre in August 1977.
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