Tara Arts

Tara Arts Group was co-founded by five Asian students, including Jatinder Verma, in 1977, in response to the racist murder of Gurdip Singh Chaggar, a Sikh teenager, in Southall. Its first production, of the play Sacrifice by Rabindranath Tagore, was held at the Battersea Arts Centre in 1977. Other productions include an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice performed in 2005, an adaptation of The Tempest performed in 2008, and an adaptation of Macbeth performed in 2015 which employed hijras in place of the three witches. Tara Arts Group located to its Garratt Lane building in 1983, which was then known as the Tara Arts Centre. The building reopened in 2007 as a theatre venue. Permission was…