When both your homes ask you to apologise for who you are, how do you decide where you belong?
Written and choreographed by Mohit Mathur | Directed by Leigh Toney
‘Highly Recommended’ – FringeReview (Brighton Fringe) ★★★★
‘A quite excellent and nuanced production’ – Rialto Arts (Brighton Fringe)
Are You Even Indian? follows a British-born Indian woman and an Indian-born man who fall in love. It feels like fate. A meet-cute, wedding dances, Bollywood jokes, and plans for a future they believe they are building together.
But as the relationship deepens, so do the cracks. Which country is “home”? What language will their child speak? Who gets to decide what makes someone truly Indian?
As personal choices clash with family expectations and social labels, the couple must confront love, compromise, and the reality of living in between. Neither fully British, nor fully Indian, the show reflects the experience of a generation navigating relationships and heritage.
This is a love story about proving your identity, not just to each other, but within the community.
The show was created through community co-creation, with workshops and conversations about “home” held with community members in Leicester, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton.
Mohit said “Moving from India to the UK made me realise that even first- and secondgeneration migrants from the same culture can experience belonging very differently. Are You Even Indian? follows a couple with the same heritage but different upbringings, caught between two cultures as they try to build a relationship and a family. Where do you go when one home says you’re too Indian, and the other says you’re not Indian enough? What does home mean when you’re living in between?”
Are You Even Indian? won Best Show at Riverside Studios’ Bitesize Festival in 2025, and was Highly Recommended at Brighton Fringe 2026, where it was also shortlisted for Best New Writing and received the Duncan’s Global Majority Bursary.
Mohit Mathur is a neurodivergent Indian actor, dancer, writer and theatre maker whose West End and touring credits include Life of Pi at Wyndham’s Theatre and on international tour, Beyond Bollywood at the London Palladium, and the UK premiere of Come Fall in Love- The DDLJ Musical (Manchester Opera House). He is the writer and performer of Dial 1 for UK, his debut solo play about migration and the gap between the dream of Britain and its reality, which has toured the UK, Canada and India to critical acclaim. Other theatre credits include Midsummer Nights Dream (Craiova Shakespeare Festival), Pericles (Craiova Shakespeare Festival), Tempest (Serbia), Imagining Animals (Tower Of London), Migrations (Welsh National Opera), Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes (Waterperry Opera Festival).
Leigh Toney is a director and Associate Director whose West End and touring credits include The Mirror and the Light, the RSC’s UK and international tour of Measure for Measure, The Da Vinci Code, Murder for Two, The Moderate Soprano, and Life of Pi. As a director in her own right her work includes Under My Skin (Pegasus Theatre) and Wirework (Tristan Bates), and she has directed extensively with young people, including Shooting Truth (The Drum/National Theatre) for NT Connections. She is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar and recipient of the JMK Leverhulme Regional Assistant Director Bursary.
You can see Are You Even Indian at The Place Theatre on 12th November
