Review: An Adventure, Bush Theatre
It’s India in the 1940s and teenaged Jyoti is not permitted to choose whether or not she marries, only to whom, and even then, it’s a miserly selection. As she ...
Vinay Patel
Review: The Millennials, Southwark Playhouse
The Millennials is a marvellous show that pays dividends to the experiences of Generation X. It combats the myriad of bleating epithets used to describe those b...
Review: Miniaturists 53, Arcola Theatre
Five plays, five different writers, five different casts, one showcase. Sounds like a bargain, a chance to see new work over the course of an evening in bitesiz...
Feature: True Brits – The stigma in our society
Image credit: Jane Hobson True Brits, by Vinay Patel, explores the challenges young Rahul faces in the aftermath of 7/7. Sweeping between the high tensions i...
Feature: Vinay Patel – “a writer with his finger firmly on the pulse”
Things are going well for Vinay Patel. After a succession of short plays his debut full-length play, True Brits, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this...
Edinburgh Review: True Brits, Assembly Hall
CONTAINS SPOILERS In summer 2012, the nation renegotiated its relationship with cynicism. Galvanised by Mitt Romney’s ill-judged insult at the country’s read...