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ADAPTED BY
HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI& JATINDER VERMA
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ANTONY BUNSEEHARJINDERTrained: Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School and Universityof 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),
Mooneece (Riverside Studios
and UK tour), dinnerladies
(UK Tour), Starsh (London
Tour/Y Touring), Lichentongue(Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
Unzipped (Young Vic/ Talawa),
Handful of Henna (Sheeld
Theatres), The Borrowers
(MAC) and Child of the Divide
(Polka Theatre/ Tamasha)TV includes: MI High and
Casualty (BBC)
CASTINORDEROFAPPEARANCE
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SAM KORDBACHEHVALMIKISam trained at ALRA and
during his time there heplayed Iago in Othello at the
Sam Wanamaker Festival at
Shakespeares Globe Theatre;
Orsino in Twelfth Night,
Ali Baba in Arabian Nights,
Jacques in As You Like It andBlackmouth in Live Like Pigs.
Theatre credits include:
Terry Johnsons Hysteria with
Theatre Royal Bath, Lorenzo
in The Merchant of Venice, MrDarling and Slightly in Peter
Pan, Tim Allgood in Noises O
and Fausto in The Talented Mr
Ripley at the Queens Theatre,
Hornchurch. Sams TV credits
include: Genie in the House forNickelodeon.
DEVEN MODHAKISHORE / MANJUDeven trained at Birmingham
School of Acting. Roles whilsttraining: Mephistopheles (Dr.
Faustus); Mowgli (The Jungle
Book). Since graduating, he
has completed shooting on
a feature lm entitled Shoot
Me directed by acclaimedGerman director Niko von
Glasow (Palladio Film) due for
release in 2013. He has worked
with BBC Wales; performed
at Trafalgar Studios (MercuryFur, Greenhouse Theatre)
and is a member of Tamasha
Theatres Developing Artists
programme.
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MEHRISH YASINMARIAM / KOHLIThis is Mehrishs debut at Tara
Arts. She trained at DramaStudio London, graduating last
summer. Previous professional
theatre credits include Fatima
in Pentecost at St Leonards
Shoreditch, which wasnominated for the O West-
End Theatre Award for Best
Ensemble Cast and Dinarzade
in Arabian Nights at the Blue
Orange Theatre. Other roles
include Navenka in Once WeWere Mothers and Hermione
in The Winters Tale.
CAROLINE KILPATRICKFROSINE /ASLAM
Caroline trained at RADA.
Theatre includes: TheTempest 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 Nights Dream,
Hobsons Choice, Rel, The
Death of Tintagel, SaltPeter at
Peoples Show; The Love of theNightingale for Rough Fiction.
Film includes: Lady Teazle in
The Invisible Woman which is
released in 2013.
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SOHINI ALAMSINGERSohini Alam is a British vocalist
of Bangladeshi descent whosemusical 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 leadvocalist for Khiyo and Kishon
Khans Afro-Cuban-Bengali
jazz band, Lokkhi Terra.
DANYAL DHONDYKEYBOARDDanyal is a London-based
composer and arranger. Hehas written two operas for
premieres this year: Just So
(Tte Tte Festival, directed
by Jatinder Verma), and The
Open Cage (The Yard, 5-7 Oct).
He has made arrangementsfor OperaUpClose and
Malm Opera, which led
to a nomination for an
Arts Foundation Award in
Opera Composition. He hasarranged string parts for
albums including Sam Lees
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 fromthe Punjab School of Tabla,
having trained for several
years with tabla maestro,
Ustad Lachhman Singh
Seen. Hassan has a degree
in music production andsound 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 artistsincluding Nahid Siddiqui, Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan and Baluji
Srivastav. He currently plays in London based bands Lokkhi
Terra and Khiyo.
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Has there ever been a better time to revisit Molieres
The Miser? Its 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 nancial, orbits the chaos of
consumerism. We have crashed and burned, seemingly
imprisoned by the free market. While the worlds mayseem dierent human nature has changed little. But
todays Indiawell, its trajectory is inexorably upward.
Molieres Harpagon becomes 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 Locheads stunning
Scots translation of Tartue. 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; theres 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 nds a way through the
wrods. He lives, breathes and probably bleeds theatre. I
have come to learn that given a script he lives, breathesand bleeds those words into theatre; and its 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 theIndependent 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 awardwinning In search of the Tartan
Turban. Hardeep has
previously performed at
Tara Theatre, with sold-
out audiences of his
Edinburgh show ChatMasala, The Nearly
Naked Chef and
Indian Takeaway.
INTRODUCTION
HARDEEP SINGH KOHLIWRITER /ADAPTATION
Hardeep Singh Kohli
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CASTIN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
ANTONY BUNSEEKRUPA PATTANISAM KORBACHEHDEVEN MODHAMEHRISH YASINCAROLINE KILPATRICK
SOHINI ALAMDANYAL DHONDYHASAN MOHYEDDIN
PATRICIA DREYFUSHARDEEP SINGH KOHLIJATINDER VERMACLAUDIA MAYERHOWARD HUDSON
DANYAL DHONDYSOHINI ALAMHASAN MOHYEDDIN
SHREYA KUMAR
CHRIS MUSGRAVEMADELINE HERBERTHILARY LEWISELIN KARNERKELSI LEWISBETH DUNCAN
TALULA SHEPPARD
JATINDER VERMACLAUDIA MAYERJONATHAN KENNEDY
AMY BRIGGSINE VAN RIETMARTINA FERRYXIAO HONG (SHARON) ZHANGMARION BUI
DAVID [email protected]
MUSICIANS
CREATIVES
HARJINDERDIMPLE / LALLI FARISHTA
VALMIKIKISHORE / MANJU
MARIAM / KOHLIFROSINE / ASLAM
SINGERKEYBOARD
PERCUSSION
TRANSLATIONWRITER / ADAPTATION
CO-WRITER / DIRECTORDESIGN
LIGHTING DESIGN
MUSICAL DIRECTORCOMPOSITIONCOMPOSITION
CHOREOHRAPHY
PRODUCTION MANAGERSCENIC ARTIST
COSTUME SUPERVISORCOSTUME ASSISTANT
STAGE MANAGERASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS
ARTISTIC DIRECTORASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - DESIGN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MARKETING OFFICERDEVELOPMENT OFFICER
THEATRE ADMINISTRATORFINANCE OFFICER
MARKETING INTERNPRESS AGENT
PRODUCTION
TARA ARTS TEAM
SPECIAL THANKSNAUSHABA KHAN-LEVY
FRONT OF HOUSE VOLUNTEERS
ALEXANDRA WYATT
BEN STEVENS
STEVE WILSONANDREAS AYLING
SARAH-LOUISE MUTTON
MATTHEW SCHNEIDERJOHN GOBLIRSCH
CHARLOTTE DERANEK
EMMELINE HARRIS
BROADWAY THEATRE - BARKINGMARTIN ROBERTS, BSL INTERPRETER
JACK HYLANDS
CEREN BAYRAKTAR
ALRA
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MOLIEREWRITER (LAVARE)Molire (1622-1673) was a French playwright who is
considered to be one of the greatest comic dramatists.
His style blended comedy with Commedia dellarte and
controversially touched upon social issues of his time. His
masterpieces include: Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope),
Tartue ou LImposteur (Tartue or the Imposter), and
LAvare (The Miser).
PATRICIA DREYFUSTRANSLATORI rst became interested in the subtleties of translation
versus interpretation whilst writing my dissertation on
the French and Italian versions of Melvilles Moby Dick atSussex 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 Tte Tte Festival. In 2011 he directed
Bollywood Cinderella, Tara Arts Christmas pantomime,
Alex Wheatles Uprising which toured the UK and TheMysteries 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 Kureishis
The Black Album for the National Theatre and UK Tour.He rst worked at the National in 1989, with an acclaimed
version of Molieres Tartue.
CLAUDIA MAYER
DESIGNClaudia Mayer trained with Percy Harris at Motley andworked 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 eventsin Trafalgar Square. Exhibition Design includes: The
Ramayana: Love and Valour in Indias 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 O West End Award for Best Lighting
Design in 2011 and 2012. Productions for Tara include,
Miranda, Peoples Romeo, Bollywood Cinderella. Otherrecent projects include, Mack and Mabel, The Illusion
(Southwark Playhouse), Strong Arm (503 and Old Vic New
Voices), Cornelius (Finborough), 1936 (Sadlers Wells).
CREATIVES
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GLOSSARYHAVELI Mansion
SMILING GANDHIS Rupee notes
GHAZALS A poetic songKISMET Fate
AGGAR BATI Incense
JAAN Soul
BHAGAVADGITAAncient hindu scriptureTAMASHAA grand show
PUKKA Complete, fully formedANNA Penny, the smallest denomination of
Indian currency
NEEMAn evergreen tree of the mahagonyfamilyDANDA stick, but also a crude description...
LAKHSOne hundred thousand
PARVEEN BABI Glamorous hindi lm actress
commonly regarded as the most beautiful of allHindi lm stars
HEMA MALINIOne of Indias leading actressesand a classically trained dancer. A more
attainable beauty than..BABI The girl next
door.AHWAIRYA RAI The modern image of lm
beauty, a renowned dancer and former MissWorld
CHUA Mouse, Tiny
MABAAP Mother and fatherMASSI Aunt, mothers sister
ALLAHKASAM An oath sworn to AllahALMIRAHWardrobe
CHAPPAL Sandal
KUNDALINI Life-forcePENJI Sister
FARISHTA AngelA KADUPumpkin
MELAFairDHARAVIMain slum area of Mumbai
TANGAWALLAH The buggy driver
RISHTA Marriage arrangementISHQ Love
VAKILS LawyersIZZAT Honour
GULIDANDA Stick-and-stone gameSABZIS Vegetables
KHEERRice pudding
KHICHLDI Rice and lentil gruel usually eatenwhen ill
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REDEVELOPMENT...
TARA ARTS
Our long-held dream - to create in Earlseld a beautiful, small-
scale theatre with a distinctly East-West avour - is on theroad 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-ecient, with ventilation, heating and lightingtreading 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
reect and express our vision of global theatre for localaudiences in Earlseld.
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 theatrefor local audiences - aims to engage diverse artists andaudiences at our London venue, Tara Theatre, and ontour in the creative crossing of imaginative borders. In1989, we were the rst Asian company to be invited to
present our work at the National Theatre with MoliresTartue directed by Artistic Director and co-founder,Jatinder Verma.Renowned for our adaptations of Asian and European
classics, childrens shows and new writing. Recentsuccesses include The Black Album (2009), BollywoodCinderella (2011) and Uprising (2010 - 2012).Kanjoos the Miser has been made possible thanks to
generous donations.If you would like to make a donation contactDevelopment Ocer, Ine Van Riet 020 8333 4457 oremail [email protected]
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ArtsTeam,partofRHW
LArchitects
For further information on the building plans or how you can
help contact Jo [email protected] or visit the websitevisit the website www.tara-arts.com
LOCAL SUGGESTIONSLooking for somewhere to get dinner after the show or
just a drink? Earlseld boasts a range of local eateries,restaurants and pubs. Global eating on your doorstep!
NAZMINS (Indian)396 Garratt Lane | 020 8946 4221
NABRASA (Brazliian)505 Garratt Lane | 020 8871 3875
AMARANTH (Thai)
346 Garratt Lane | 020 8874 9036
HALFWAY HOUSE (Pub)521 Garratt Lane | 020 8946 2788
BAR 366 (Cocktail bar)366 Garratt Lane | 020 8944 9591
HANNAHS PLACE (Restaurant)350 Garratt Lane | 020 8877 0799
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K Miser
M C Flea SuckingC Lackey, Yes-man
B! Fool!
B Bloke
B! Stop!T, T! (Exclamation, wardingoff evil)
C ! (Expression of disgust)
Z! Absolutely!
K! Bastard, miser, skinflint
G thug
S-, calm down,
brother
H-!Oh my god!
A V !(Appreciative
exclamation)
C! Quiet!
L! Layabout!B..! Buffoon..!
D Understand please
T Slap
B! damn right!
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