Rafta, Rafta
Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre, London 8th October to 10th November
2007
The wedding feast is over and his father's dancing the
bhangra, but the groom himself is busy on the net. and when it's time for
bed, he's so woefully inhibited by the proximity of his parents, let alone
his brother's childish pranks, that his beautiful virgin bride remains just
that. Six weeks later, the whole family start to panic.
A hugely warm-hearted, comic tale of close-knit Indian
family life in England by the author of East is East, Ayub Khan-Din.
Bollywood actor Harish
Patel,
making his debut on the London stage, is joined by Meera
Syal.
"The real pleasure lies in seeing
Khan-Din use a northern folk comedy to explore the recognisable fissures
in Asian family life" 
Michael
Billington, The Guardian
"An addictive mixture of humour, tenderness
and pain in Khan-Din's script and Nicholas Hytner's beautifully judged
production" Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
"Lucky Bollywood. Lucky us" Benedict Nightingale,
The Times
Audience's reviews: No audience reviews
