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An Adventure
I'm not much now, I know, but I will be. So pick me Jyoti and I swear I will make us the greatest adventure you ever have.
On a stormy night in 1954, a woman doomed to marry one of five men discovers the wildcard choice might just be the person she'd been hoping for all along. An Adventure follows headstrong Jyoti and her fumbling suitor Rasik as they ride the crest of the fall of the Empire from the shores of post-Partition India to the forests of Mau Mau Kenya onto the industrial upheaval of 1970s London and the present day.
But what happens when youthful ambitions crash hard against reality? When you look back at the story of your time together, can you bear to ask yourself: was it all worth it?
Witty, charming and full of fearless historical insight, An Adventure is an epic, technicolour love story from one of the country's most promising young writers about the people who journeyed to British shores in hope and shaped the country we live in today.
On a stormy night in 1954, a woman doomed to marry one of five men discovers the wildcard choice might just be the person she'd been hoping for all along. An Adventure follows headstrong Jyoti and her fumbling suitor Rasik as they ride the crest of the fall of the Empire from the shores of post-Partition India to the forests of Mau Mau Kenya onto the industrial upheaval of 1970s London and the present day.
But what happens when youthful ambitions crash hard against reality? When you look back at the story of your time together, can you bear to ask yourself: was it all worth it?
Witty, charming and full of fearless historical insight, An Adventure is an epic, technicolour love story from one of the country's most promising young writers about the people who journeyed to British shores in hope and shaped the country we live in today.
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November 3, 2018
It's rare these days to find a play that is simultaneously epic and intimate, but Patel's fascinating history/romance, based upon his own grandparents' lives, fits the bill. The opening scene is so effortlessly charming, it is somewhat a shame the rest of the play doesn't contain that same playfulness. Some of the rest of the first act, which is bogged down a bit with the necessity for detailing the history of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, stumbles a bit, but the play eventually regains its footing, and becomes a satisfying depiction of lives that don't often get such a full hearing.
January 7, 2019
Very nearly made me cry on the tube. What a glorious script, and how full life is.
October 17, 2018
This is a wonderfully romantic, intimate warm play on a scale that these stories are not often given. Jyoti and Rasik, on their Great Adventure from post-partition India to 2018 London, via Mau Mau era Kenya and the industrial disputes of the 1970s. The first scene is one of my very, very favourite things.
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August 10, 2020
Gutting and tender and grand. A really excellent, genuine romance.
November 28, 2020
they never did go to blackpool 😢
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