Playreading in Bradford for World Curry Festival
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New production 2026

A comical slice of British Asian life set in the Midlands.

In Birmingham’s Balti Land, where Indian restaurants ruthlessly compete for custom, curry wars rage with price slashing and chef poaching.
Restaurateur Yahsin Anwar needs to stop his restaurant being swallowed up by a competitor. To ward off this threat, his family plan a grand re-opening where you can pile your plate for under a fiver and ‘Curry-oke’ into the night. But the temperature in the kitchen soon rises, as the chef is faced with the challenge of producing dozens of dishes, hampered by staff whose personal affairs are also hotting up…