Arts
"I don't think the victory is for a brown kid to see a brown person on stage and say 'That's me!', it's for a white kid to see a brown kid on stage and say 'That's me.'..." When the idea of a Theatre Deli Podcast was first thrown around, one name kept on cropping up as a potential guest - Vinay Patel. As a writer, Vinay seemed to appear fully formed with his first full length play True Brits, which heralded him as a vital presence within an emerging cultural generation, whose work naturally flowed between stage, TV and film. The path Vinay took, however, was ever more meandering, encompassing a love of storytelling, a relatively late discovery of theatre and a particularly difficult sell to his grandparents. On the way, Vinay and Roland talk about being in bands, writing work that you want your football team to see and why, in career terms, it is absolutely fine to take your time.