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