What The Critics Say

Selected press for Raj Ghatak’s work on stage and in audio, most recent first.

The Producers — Carmen Ghia
Garrick Theatre, West End, 2025–26

“Ghatak’s Carmen is deliciously arch, possessive and immaculately disdainful.”

— Robert Cope, Theatre Life  ★★★★★

“…hysterically funny as Carmen Ghia.”

— Ian Bowkett, Musical Theatre Review  ★★★★★

The Producers — Carmen Ghia
Menier Chocolate Factory, 2024

“Raj Ghatak as Carmen Ghia… a slender streak of acid.”

— Helen Hawkins, The Arts Desk  ★★★★★

“Deliciously all in black Raj Ghatak… a wonderful double act.”

— Vera Liber, British Theatre Guide

The Father and the Assassin — Kishore
National Theatre, 2023

“Raj Ghatak provides dry humour as the long-suffering Kishore.”

— Julia Rank, London Theatre  ★★★★

Night Theater — Audiobook
Library Journal Best Audiobooks of 2020

“…memorably enhanced by Ghatak’s enthralling performance.”

— Starred review, Library Journal

The Kite Runner — Amir
UK and Ireland tour, 2018

“Raj Ghatak is an engaging and confident leading man.”

— James Ballands, British Theatre Guide

“Ghatak’s delivery of the monologue is sensitive to the gentle humour which hallmarks Hosseini’s fiction.”

— Izzy Troth, Cherwell

Flood of Fire — Audiobook
Amitav Ghosh, 2015

“Narrator Raj Ghatak’s precise diction is well suited for a historical novel that spans the height of the British Empire.”

— Review, Kirkus Reviews

Bombay Dreams — Sweetie
Apollo Victoria Theatre, West End, 2002

“Sweetie, played by Raj Ghatak, is excellent…”

— Review, London Theatre