Her father, Phelim, 38, is a manager at Wembley Park station, her 17-year-old brother Phelim is a trainee at the maintenance firm Tube Lines and her godfather is a driver on the Jubilee Line.
The production, by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, of the Improbable theatre company, immaculately splits the difference between the historical and the visionary, intermingling scenes of Gandhi in action with vividly imagined motifs out of the Bhagavad Gita, from which the sung text is drawn.