History
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. [3] [4] Other productions include an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice performed in 2005, [5] an adaptation of The Tempest performed in 2008, [6] and an adaptation of Macbeth performed in 2015 which employed hijras in place of the three witches. [7]
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 granted in 2012 to refurbish the building into a 100-seat theatre. [8] Refurbishment works completed in 2016 at a cost of £2.7 million, and the new building was officially opened by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. [9] In 2020, the Mayor of London approved a grant of up to £180,000 to secure the Tara Theatre building, citing Tara Arts being the only BAME-led theatre group in London which has its own building. [10]
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