Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

If you want to know how free a society is, look at what’s happening in its theatres | Arifa Akbar

Political art helps to debate and confront the challenges in our lives. It is also a record we must return to again and again, says Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar

Arifa Akbar

28, Jun, 2024 @11:00 AM

A Kind of People review – a fresh look at race and relationships

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s engaging drama examines privilege and power in modern Britain

Gregory Robinson

29, Dec, 2019 @5:30 AM

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: 'My family make the Borgias look like the Waltons'

She needed police protection after her play about a rape in a Sikh temple was axed mid-run. The playwright talks about the extraordinary upbringing that drives her

Arifa Akbar

02, Dec, 2019 @4:48 PM

'Surprising' new Caryl Churchill triple bill to open at Royal Court

Churchill’s Glass, Kill and Bluebeard ‘will be a real adventure’, says London theatre, as full year of productions is unveiled

Mark Brown , Arts correspondent

01, May, 2019 @8:00 AM

Elephant review – sparky family drama from Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

Everyone has something to hide in this funny yet serious examination of cultural values, blood ties and atonement

Lyn Gardner

21, Feb, 2018 @4:34 PM

Khandan (Family) review – Sikh suburban drama confronts home truths

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's piece about a widowed matriarch and her reckless son plays on the tensions and tenacity of family ties, writes Michael Billington

Michael Billington

28, May, 2014 @11:45 AM

10 years after Behzti, I'm back – a moment I thought could never happen | Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: I was shattered when the Birmingham Rep pulled my play after Sikh protests. But a decade later it has changed – and so have I

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti

24, May, 2014 @6:00 AM

This week's new theatre

Mark Cook & Lyn Gardner

16, May, 2014 @11:00 AM

New Royal Court season reunites Simon Stephens and Sherlock's Andrew Scott

Matt Trueman: New artistic director Vicky Featherstone also cues up plays from Tim Crouch and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, plus a futuristic crime thriller and a footballer sex scandal drama

Matt Trueman

13, Nov, 2013 @11:13 AM

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' censorship over Radio 4 play Stone

Corporation in firing line after it cut dialogue from drama written by controversial playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. By John Plunkett

John Plunkett

30, Jan, 2013 @12:37 PM

Behud/Mrs Warren's Profession/Enchanted Palace | Theatre review

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti responds to critics of her controversial Behzti, while Felicity Kendal glitters as the brazen Mrs Warren

Kate Kellaway

03, Apr, 2010 @11:05 PM

Theatre picks of the week