Early on in this three-act, two-interval, three-hour-long piece, protagonist Jyoti laments that stories like hers don’t get told. This piece goes some way to redressing the balance.
Vinay Patel’s An Adventure was first seen at the Bush in London in 2018 and receives its regional premiere here. In the intervening four years, thanks to the efforts of journalists such as Sathnam Sanghera, we’ve begun to have a wider historical lens on the story of British colonialism and its effects on the south Asian subcontinent.