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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, the rooms above pubs where things start, and the booth on Leicester Square that sells off what the West End has not. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
Founded in 1977 after a racist murder in Southall, and now the first theatre building in Britain designed for more than one culture's stagecraft.
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Gurdip Singh Chaggar, a Sikh teenager, was murdered in Southall in 1976. Five Asian students, Jatinder Verma among them, founded a theatre company the following year in response, and it is still here, which makes it the oldest Asian-led theatre company in the country.
It moved to Garratt Lane in 1983 and rebuilt the place in 2016 for £2.7 million, reopening with a hundred seats and a rehearsal room, offices on the roof and a patio garden. The rebuild is the claim it is proudest of: a theatre designed from the start for the conventions of more than one tradition rather than an English playhouse that also hosts other people's work.
Verma's term for what the company does is Binglish - plays in English staged by the rules of Indian and other non-English theatre, so that the form itself argues with what an English stage normally does. In practice that means classics you know, done in a way you do not.
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