Tara Theatre will open its "specially sourced Indian doors" this autumn with a mission to become London's new home for multicultural theatre.
The season will open with a co-production with Theatre Accord of Paradise of the Assassins, the first ever staging of a nineteenth-century Indian novella about the medieval cult of the Assassins and a young man's seduction into a terrorist creed. The production will be adapted and directed by Anthony Clark.
Jeffrey Kissoon will direct Britain's first all-black Hamlet and Ambreen Razia will return to London with The Diary of a Hounslow Girl, both under the Black Theatre Live umbrella. A Thousand Crane's Round the World in 40 Minutes is billed as a "magical Shakespearean adventure for children" and Robert Mountford explores how his life echoes that of Thin Lizzie front man Phil Lynott in Vagabonds.
The season ends with Tara's own twist on panto, as Jack and the Beanstalk becomes Bollywood Jack.
Tara artistic director Jatinder Verma said, "connecting the worlds of story and imagination have been in Tara’s DNA since our first play in Battersea in 1977. Our new programme of work echoes both our history and the architecture of the new Tara Theatre, welcoming artists and audiences through our doors."