Marriage Material Theatre Review — a Sweeping Saga of British Sikh Family Life

Marriage Material theatre review — a sweeping saga of British Sikh family life

The Lyric Hammersmith’s adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s novel is full of heart and humour

Marriage Material at the Lyric Hammersmith review: raucously funny and often moving

Even when it stretches plausibility – those wigs! – this sprawling immigrant aspiration story is a pleasure to watch

Marriage Material – Lyric Hammersmith - North West End UK

The clash of cultures is a tale as old as time. Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s novel, itself a take on Arnold Bennett’s 1908 “The Old Wives’ Tale”, focuses on the conflict between tradition and change within a Sikh Punjabi family in the 1960s and over the following decades. Family and cultural expectations demand that sisters Kamaljit and Surinder marry, have children, and work in the family business, the corner shop tha…

Marriage Material - Lyric Hammersmith, London - The Reviews Hub

Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti Director: Iqbal Khan Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s panoramic exploration of Pakistani-British identity based on the novel by Sathnam Sanghera comes to the Lyric Hammersmith in a new adaptation that creates two distinct acts, one set in the 1970s and the other in the present day. Using the choice of who to marry … The post Marriage Material – Lyric Hammersmith, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.