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Pravesh Kumar

PRAVESH KUMAR

  
Nationality:    British
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Pravesh Kumar's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Pravesh Kumar's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bollywood - Yet Another Love Story         Bollywood 2000         Britain's Got Bhangra         Deranged Marriage, The         Laila - The Musical         There's Something About Simmy         Where's My Desi Soulmate?

Bollywood - Yet Another Love Story

Synopsis:
a live Bollywood film on stage

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Bollywood 2000

Synopsis:
a spoof on the Bollywood movies mixes a specially made pastiche movie with smaller scale live action, often co-ordinating the action of the two.
Helen Chappell, What's On

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1st Produced:
Riverside 3, London >>>     11 Oct 2000

Organisations:
Rifco Arts

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Music:
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Genre:
Spoof

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  film extras

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Britain's Got Bhangra

Synopsis:
Britain's Got Bhangra charts the rise of British Bhangra from the sequin clad 80s through to the RnB fusion of the current charts. Twinkle arrives fresh from the fields of the Punjab with a song in his heart and no money in his pocket. Can his talent shine through or will the remixed bling of the 90's DJ's ruin his dreams? Bring the family and move to the rhythm and Bhangra. Shake your shoulders, twist that lightbulb; this is the story of how Britain got Bhangra. a new musical guaranteed to lift you from the dhol drums!

Notes:
book by Pravesh Kumar; lyrics by Douglas irvine; music by Sumeet Chopra

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Organisations:
Theatre Royal Stratford east and RIFCO Arts in association with Warwick Arts Centre

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  11 performers

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Deranged Marriage, The

Synopsis:
Welcome to the marriage of two families, where decision, the whirlwind wedding circus is on the bride and groom are lost in the chaos. Take the move without them. While their frenzied your place in the wedding circus with the families race to ensure this is the most crooning aunties and dancing drunken uncles, elaborate wedding Windsor has ever seen, Join our frenzied families as they hunt for the the young couple's cold feet threaten to enter ladoos and prepare for the most spectacular the wedding mandap; and while the missing wedding of the season. Come and celebrate gifts continue to cause mayhem, years of the Deranged Marriage in all its shoulder family conflict bubbling under the surface look shaking, sari swirling, heart wrenching glory! likely to spill over. In the midst of the glittering jewels and spectacular saris, crooning aunties Rishi and Sona have just met, now they're and drunken uncles, is the reason behind it all getting married and although this was their being lost?

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1st Produced:
The Hawth, Crawley, West Sussex     Sep 2004

Organisations:
Rifco Arts

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Laila - The Musical

Synopsis:
Laila takes shelter from a raging storm in an old bookshop, where she chances upon a book with her name on it. She is compelled to open the book and is consumed by the story - Laila finds herself in an old story and on a new journey... From the Persian deserts, the bittersweet story of star-crossed lovers Laila and Majnu, has been passed down through verse and song over centuries. The story of young love and feuding families is given a modern musical twist, taking you across the sands of time. Will love or fate prevail?

Notes:
music by SUMEET CHOPRA, lyrics by DOUGAL IRVINE and book by PRAVESH KUMAR

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Organisations:
Rifco Arts

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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There's Something About Simmy

Synopsis:
the birth charts are a perfect match. Simmy, the imported bride, will bring good fortune to her unlucky In-laws. But Raj. the wayward groom has run away before marriage could reform him. Until he returns. Simmy is locked in the house, keeping the diabetic granddad away from the Jalelbis. all is unwell until 1-larry, the other son, arrives home for the summer hols. even though Harry cannot speak Punjabi and Simmy has difficulty with english, a friendship begins to form which grabs the attention of the community. the net curtains twitch, while the outrageous aunties focus their binoculars on the Bedi household.

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Organisations:
Rifco Arts

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Where's My Desi Soulmate?

Synopsis:
It used to be so simple. Boy meets girl over a plate of samosas in auntie Bimla's living room. So why, in the age of Shaadi.com, tamtric speed dating, cosmic ordering, pokes and twitters is the path to true love bumpier than ever?

Notes:
written And directed by Pravesh Kumar, co-written by Sonia Likhari And Harvey Virdi

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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