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Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

June 2024

  • Arifa Akbar

    If you want to know how free a society is, look at what’s happening in its theatres

    Arifa Akbar
    Political art helps to debate and confront the challenges in our lives. It is also a record we must return to again and again, says Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar

December 2019

  • Claire-Louise Cordwell and Richie Campbell in A Kind of People.

    A Kind of People review – a fresh look at race and relationships

  • Bars on her windows … Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, whose new plays is called A Kind of People.

    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: 'My family make the Borgias look like the Waltons'

May 2019

  • Caryl Churchill

    'Surprising' new Caryl Churchill triple bill to open at Royal Court

    Churchill’s Glass, Kill and Bluebeard ‘will be a real adventure’, says London theatre, as full year of productions is unveiled

February 2018

  • Sukh Ojla as Vira and Yasmin Wilde as Deesh in Elephant at Birmingham Rep, Feb 2018.

    Elephant review – sparky family drama from Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

    Everyone has something to hide in this funny yet serious examination of cultural values, blood ties and atonement

May 2014

  • Sudha Buchar (Jeeto) and Rez Kempton (Pal) in Khandan (Family) at Birmingham Rep

    Khandan (Family) review – Sikh suburban drama confronts home truths

    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's piece about a widowed matriarch and her reckless son plays on the tensions and tenacity of family ties, writes Michael Billington

  • Sign condemning Behzti

    Ten years after my play Behzti sparked Sikh riots, I'm back

    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: I was shattered when the Birmingham Rep pulled my play after Sikh protests. But a decade later it has changed – and so have I
  • Khandan

    This week's new theatre
    This week's new theatre

    Khandan (Family) | Miss Saigon | Tomorrow | Enjoy | John Ferguson | The Roof

November 2013

  • Sherlock's Andrew Scott re-teams with Simon Stephens

    New Royal Court season reunites Simon Stephens and Sherlock's Andrew Scott

    Matt Trueman: New artistic director Vicky Featherstone also cues up plays from Tim Crouch and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, plus a futuristic crime thriller and a footballer sex scandal drama

January 2013

  • Hugo Speer

    BBC accused of 'extraordinary' censorship over Radio 4 play Stone

    Corporation in firing line after it cut dialogue from drama written by controversial playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. By John Plunkett

July 2011

  • Chetna Pandya and Priyanga Burford in Behud.

    Theatre blog
    Back to Behzti: what happened next

    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: After my play about abuse in the Sikh community sparked death threats in 2004, the only way to turn was back to drama – to confront censorship head-on

April 2010

  • behud

    Behud; Mrs Warren's Profession; Enchanted Palace

    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti responds to critics of her controversial Behzti, while Felicity Kendal glitters as the brazen Mrs Warren

March 2010

  • A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

    Theatre picks of the week

  • Behud

    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: 'I'm not scared'

May 2006

  • Nick Cohen

    Yet again we cave into religious bigots. And this time they're Hindus

    Nick Cohen
    Nick Cohen: The Satanic Verses, Behzti, Theo van Gogh's Submission, Jerry Springer: The Opera, the Danish cartoons of Muhammad ... now we can add the London exhibition of the work of Maqbool Fida Husain to the rapidly expanding list of works of art and satire targeted by militant religion.

March 2005

  • Sikh protest theatre stages Muslim prostitution play

    The Birmingham Rep continues to chart a controversial course with its latest drama, set in a fictional Muslim brothel. Three months ago, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's Behzti, at the same venue, was cancelled following violent protests by the local community and religious groups and its author was forced into hiding.

January 2005

  • Limits of free speech

  • This warrior is fighting on

    Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

  • Rushdie wrong on new law

  • Word play

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