RAFTA, RAFTA...
Get tickets here to see this hugely warm-hearted, comic tale of close-knit Indian family life in England come to life on the West End stage.
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 starts to panic. A wonderful, comic slice of British Asian life comes to the London stage.
THE BASICS
Show Type : Musical
Started: 18/04/2007
Opened: 26/04/2007
Duration: with no intervals
Performance Schedule:
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Individual tickets booking through:
23/06/2007
Group tickets on sale through:
23/06/2007
Group Minimum:
0 tickets
STARRING
Arsher Ali as Etash Tailor
Ali trained at East 15, and his previous theatre credits include Little Nell, The Country Wife, Pentecost, The Idiot and The White Devil. Television includes Maxwell, Britz and Trial and Retribution. Rafta, Rafta marks his debut at the National.
Rudi Dharmalingam as Jai Dutt
Dharmalingam has previously appeared at the National in Playing With Fire and The History Boys (also on world tour and on Broadway).
Other recent theatre includes Tom's Midnight Garden, The Tempest, E To The Power 3, The Dispute, Anorak of Fire and The Geri Project.
Meera Syal as Lopa Dutt
Best known from hit TV comedies Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No. 42, Syal is also a best selling author and screenwriter, and an actress in film, TV and on stage. West End theatre includes Bombay Dreams, The Vagina Monologues, Serious Money, Byrthrite, Kissing God, and School for Scandal. She was awarded the MBE in 1997.
Also Starring:
Kriss Dosanjh as Laxman Patel
Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi as Vina Patel
Natalie Grady as Molly Bhatt
Ronny Jhutti as Atul Dutt
Shaheen Khan as Lata Patel
Simon Nagra as Jivaj Bhatt
Harish Patel as Eeshwar Dutt
CREATORS
Written by Ayub Khan-Din
Based on All in Good Time by Bill Naughton
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Scenic & Costume Design by Tim Hatley
Lighting Design by Hugh Vanstone
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