ADAPTED BY

HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI& JATINDER VERMA

ANTONY BUNSEEHARJINDERTrained: 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.

KRUPA PATTANIDIMPLE / LALLI FARISHTATrained 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)

CASTIN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

SAM KORDBACHEH VALMIKI Sam trained at ALRA and

during his time there he

played Iago in Othello at the

Sam Wanamaker Festival at

Shakespeare’s 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 Johnson’s 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 Queen’s Theatre,

Hornchurch. Sam’s TV credits

include: Genie in the House for

Nickelodeon.

DEVEN MODHAKISHORE / MANJUDeven 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

Theatre’s Developing Artists’

programme.

MEHRISH YASINMARIAM / KOHLIThis is Mehrish’s 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 West-End 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 Winter’s Tale.

CAROLINE KILPATRICKFROSINE / ASLAM

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 Night’s Dream,

Hobson’s Choice, Rel, The

Death of Tintagel, SaltPeter at

People’s Show; The Love of the

Nightingale for Rough Fiction.

Film includes: Lady Teazle in

The Invisible Woman which is

released in 2013.

SOHINI ALAMSINGERSohini 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

Khan’s Afro-Cuban-Bengali

jazz band, Lokkhi Terra.

DANYAL DHONDYKEYBOARDDanyal is a London-based

composer and arranger. He

has written two operas for

premieres this year: Just So

(Tête à Tête Festival, directed

by Jatinder Verma), and The

Open Cage (The Yard, 5-7 Oct).

He has made arrangements

for OperaUpClose and

Malmö Opera, which led

to a nomination for an

Arts Foundation Award in

Opera Composition. He has

arranged string parts for

albums including Sam Lee’s

Mercury-nominated ‘Ground

of its Own’, and composed

three pieces for Kensington

Chamber Orchestra.

HASSAN MOHYEDDINPERCUSSIONHassan 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.

Has there ever been a better time to revisit Moliere’s

The Miser? It’s 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 world’s may

seem different human nature has changed little. But today’s India…well, its trajectory is inexorably upward.

Moliere’s Harpagon become’s 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 Lochead’s 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; there’s 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 it’s theatre

that I love.

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 sold-

out audiences of his

Edinburgh show Chat

Masala, The Nearly

Naked Chef and

Indian Takeaway.

INTRODUCTION

HARDEEP SINGH KOHLIWRITER / ADAPTATION

Hardeep Singh Kohli

CASTIN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

ANTONY BUNSEE

KRUPA PATTANI

SAM KORBACHEH

DEVEN MODHA

MEHRISH YASIN

CAROLINE KILPATRICK

SOHINI ALAM

DANYAL DHONDY

HASAN MOHYEDDIN

PATRICIA DREYFUS

HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI

JATINDER VERMA

CLAUDIA MAYER

HOWARD HUDSON

DANYAL DHONDY

SOHINI ALAM

HASAN MOHYEDDIN

SHREYA KUMAR

CHRIS MUSGRAVE

MADELINE HERBERT

HILARY LEWIS

ELIN KARNER

KELSI LEWIS

BETH DUNCAN

TALULA SHEPPARD

JATINDER VERMA

CLAUDIA MAYER

JONATHAN KENNEDY

AMY BRIGGS

INE VAN RIET

MARTINA FERRY

XIAO HONG (SHARON) ZHANG

MARION BUI

DAVID BURNS david@davidburnspr.com

MUSICIANS

CREATIVES

HARJINDER

DIMPLE / LALLI FARISHTA

VALMIKI

KISHORE / MANJU

MARIAM / KOHLI

FROSINE / ASLAM

SINGER

KEYBOARD

PERCUSSION

TRANSLATION

WRITER / ADAPTATION

CO-WRITER / DIRECTOR

DESIGN

LIGHTING DESIGN

MUSICAL DIRECTOR

COMPOSITION

COMPOSITION

CHOREOHRAPHY

PRODUCTION MANAGER

SCENIC ARTIST

COSTUME SUPERVISOR

COSTUME ASSISTANT

STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - DESIGN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MARKETING OFFICER

DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

THEATRE ADMINISTRATOR

FINANCE OFFICER

MARKETING INTERN

PRESS AGENT

PRODUCTION

TARA ARTS TEAM

SPECIAL THANKSNAUSHABA 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

MOLIEREWRITER (L’AVARE)

Molière (1622-1673) was a French playwright who is

considered to be one of the greatest comic dramatists.

His style blended comedy with Commedia dell’arte and

controversially touched upon social issues of his time. His

masterpieces include: Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope),

Tartuffe ou L’Imposteur (Tartuffe or the Imposter), and L’Avare (The Miser).

PATRICIA DREYFUSTRANSLATORI first became interested in the subtleties of translation versus interpretation whilst writing my dissertation on

the French and Italian versions of Melville’s 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 VERMAWRITER / DIRECTORJatinder Verma is co-founder and Artistic Director of

Tara Arts. Most recently Jatinder directed the Just So

Opera for the Tête à Tête Festival. In 2011 he directed

Bollywood Cinderella, Tara Arts’ Christmas pantomime,

Alex Wheatle’s 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 Kureishi’s

The Black Album for the National Theatre and UK Tour.

He first worked at the National in 1989, with an acclaimed version of Moliere’s Tartuffe.

CLAUDIA MAYERDESIGNClaudia 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 India’s Greatest Epic at

the British Library. For BBC Radio 4 an adaptation of The

Mahhabharata with Jatinder Verma.

HOWARD HUDSONLIGHTING DESIGNHoward 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, People’s 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).

CREATIVES

GLOSSARYHAVELI 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 formedANNA 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 starsHEMA MALINI One of India’s 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, mother’s 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

REDEVELOPMENT...

TARA ARTS

Our long-held dream - to create in Earlsfield a beautiful, small-scale 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.

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 Molière’s

Tartuffe directed by Artistic Director and co-founder, Jatinder Verma.

Renowned for our adaptations of Asian and European

classics, children’s 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

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