Published in 2023
1 hour and 24 minutes
Sudha Bhuchar is a Tanzanian-born British Asian actor, playwright, and co-founder of the Tamasha Theatre Company. She is best known for Tamasha’s Balti Kings (1999), A Fine Balance (2005), The Trouble with Asian Men (2005), and My Name Is… (2014) as well as numerous screenplays for television and film. Bhuchar’s playwriting and producing work focuses on the stories of British Asians with the goal of attracting culturally and ethnically diverse audiences. She has been called “one of Britain’s most successful artistic theatre directors and well-established actors”.
What is this book about?
“You’re the one with the identity crisis mum, not us!”
Acclaimed actor and writer, Sudha Bhuchar (Mary Poppins Returns, Mogul Mowgli) presents, Evening Conversations. Middle class, middle aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha lives a ‘squeezed middle’ life in Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a NRI (Non-Resident Indian), she is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and place in the world. Evening Conversations is a warm-hearted monologue inspired by Sudha’s banter with her dual-heritage (Pakistani/East African Indian) millennial sons who have grown up in leafy Wimbledon while her life has spanned three continents. She invites her boys to ‘crack open a cold one’ and share their views on life. Will her fiercely British sons see their heritage as a source of strength or an unwelcome inheritance? Inextricably shaped by Sudha’s cross-continental childhood, a far cry from her sons’ upbringing in leafy Wimbledon, Evening Conversations is warm hearted, humorous, and truthful.
Written and performed by Sudha Bhuchar and directed by Kristine Landon-Smith, with music by Arun Ghosh.
