Tamasha theatre company turns 21

Shobu Kapoor, Sudha Bhuchar, Nina Wadia and Jamila Massey in Women of the Dust by Ruth Carter in 1992. Based on what the company saw on their trip to the building sites of Delhi, this scene captures the wage queue. Every week the mazdurs (women labourers) stood in line to collect their wages Photograph: Sue Wilson

Mina Anwar and Charubala Chokshi in A Shaft of Sunlight by Abhijat Joshi in 1994. Mina Anwar became a TV star soon after in series such as The Thin Blue Line Photograph: Jenny Potter

Chris Bisson and Jimi Mistry in East is East by Ayub Khan Din in 1996. Nominated for an Olivier Award for best new comedy, East is East went on to be a major movie Photograph: Robert Day

Parminder Nagra in Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral, by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith from the film Hum Aapke Hain Koun in 1998 and 2001 [This caption was amended on 28 July 2010 to correct the name of the film] Photograph: Charlie Carter

A Tainted Dawn by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith in 1997. The production was adapted from short stories about the partition of India Photograph: Jenny Potter

Balti Kings by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan in 1999. The documentary feel of the text was captured in an in the round version; the production culminated in the making of 35 dishes for a banquet live on stage Photograph: Jenny Potter

Fiona Wade and Paul Tilley in Strictly Dandia by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith in 2003. The choreography by Liam Steele won best choreography at the Edinburgh international festival Photograph: Danny Puffett

Chris Ryman and Divian Ladwa in The Trouble with Asian Men created by Sudha Bhuchar, Kristine Landon-Smith and Louise Wallinger in 2005-7. This show was verbatim theatre, in which actors listened to the source material as they performed it Photograph: Tristram Kenton

A Fine Balance was adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith from the novel by Rohinton Mistry in 2006. It depicted four strangers brought together by the events of Indira Ghandi's Indian Emergency of 1975 Photograph: Robert Day

Divian Ladwa in Child of the Divide by Sudha Bhuchar in 2006. The company's first foray into theatre for young people, it focused on the experience of a small Hindu boy who found himself caught up in the events following the partition of India Photograph: Nic Kirley

Busola Aderemi, Sarah Akinsanmi and Nana Owusu-Agyare in Lyrical MC by Sita Brahmachari in 2008, with verbatim texts from Britain's schools. Sita Brahmachari and Kristine Landon-Smith spent five years working in schools with teachers and young people – Lyrical MC was the result Photograph: Robert Workman

Sudha Bhuchar in Sweet Cider by Em Hussain in 2008. A successful collaboration with a new partner, the Arcola in Dalston, the play focused on two young Pakistani girls' experience in an Asian women's refuge Photograph: Manuel Harlan

A scene from Wuthering Heights by Tamasha at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in April 2009. Set in Rajasthan, this musical version of Emily Brontë’s tale told the story of a spice merchant's daughter who falls in love with 'a wily street urchin from Bombay'
Tristram Kenton

Ila Arun in The House of Bilquis Bibi by Sudha Bhuchar in 2010. The reworking of Lorca's classic features an all-female cast of nine Photograph: Robert Day

Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, Tamasha's artistic directors Photograph: Tamasha Theatre Co