New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor is happy, in love and about to land the biggest career promotion of his life.

But beneath the veneer, success has come at a price. When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging.

Disgraced – the hit play about ambition, culture and faith – took US audiences by storm in 2012 and provoked debate across the nation. Originally produced at the American Theater Company, Chicago, followed by a sell-out run at the Lincoln Center 3, New York, it won the Jeff Equity Award for Best New Play of that year.

The Bush Theatre production marks the UK première of Akhtar’s first work for the stage.