behzti

Behzti, a play about sex abuse and murder in a Sikh temple, was cancelled in 2004 after the Sikh community stormed the theatre. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Last Friday, British theatre took a small step in the direction of free speech. At the Soho Theatre, in the heart of London's West...

Theatre fans in Birmingham are hoping to avoid a rerun of last year when the Birmingham Repertory Theatre's production of Behzti was canceled after violent Sikh protests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11jprj7v8/*http%3A//www.playbill.com/news/article/91926.html

Sikh playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, who was forced to go into hiding following violent protests over her play Behzti in Britain last month, on Thursday broke ... http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1196805,00050003.htm

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/986563.cms VHP on Behzti warpath in UK Times of India, India - 9 hours ago LONDON: Hindu activists in the UK have threatened to copy last months violent Sikh protests in Birmingham against an allegedly blasphemous play, in an attempt ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1379489,00.html Sikhs are the real losers from Behzti Guardian, UK - Dec 24, 2004 ... The choice before it is stark: relapse into a narrow agitational Sikhism or recognise the need to accommodate young British Sikhs voices. ...

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041221/asp/nation/story_4155653.asp Curtains for Behzti in Britain Calcutta Telegraph, India - 17 hours ago There were ugly clashes on Saturday night when up to 400 Sikhs demonstrated outside the theatre and protested that the play was an insult to Sikhism. ...

Statement by Sikh groups on Behzti 17th December, 2004 Any institute, religious or otherwise, is open to corruption, abuse and political ambition. Like the child-molesting priests of the Catholic faith, or the bigotry of some Imams of the Moslem faith and the Pundits of Hindus, the Sikh...

http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/theatre/735 Behzti (dishonour) by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti - reviewed AsiansinMedia.org, UK - 4 hours ago ... Gurpreets new play is set in a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) and explores a number of themes with a variety of interesting characters. ...