Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Nazira, 58, British Pakistani, has been ‘in loco parentis’ to so many - her younger brothers and as a primary school teacher. Now she cooks everyday curries for people who ask: ‘Has Nazira baaji made this? Unkay...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (15), Female (5), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...I have a boy. He is across the border, I know he is.A few miles between. The same stars Shine on him Summer 1947. Sixteen million people are on the move between India...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Hamza, mid 20s British Pakistani, aka Desi Cake Lover is furloughed from his job at Luton airport. As he awaits his Amazon parcels, hoping for the arrival of real rose petals for his Persian love cake recipe, he reflects on touch...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...In this only duologue in the collection, band members Farid and Manju (both mid 60s) meet on zoom to celebrate their inter-faith bond, through a tender annual ritual. Revelations are shared with Sudha through easy banter and fragments...

Methuen Drama, 2014

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...When Gaby disappears from her Scottish home, it is assumed that her Pakistani father, Farhan, has kidnapped her. The spiralling headlines are only momentarily silenced when it emerges that Gaby may have fled of her own accord, choosing...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Pholi, 71, a Sikh widow in isolation, reminisces about her life in Luton in the 60s, when as a new bride she and her husband worked to establish themselves and bring up their sons. ‘Where was the time for hugs? I...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Rehan, 54, started as an assistant making hats for Lady Diana and other royals. Like Princes Harry and William, Rehan lost his mother at a tender age. Now he has named his shop after her. ‘Gul-e Rana (sweet...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...‘I used to think, ‘Does Dad only exist on Eid day?’ The rest of the time, even though he was visible to us, we were invisible to him’ Anwar, mid 50s British Pakistani is only invited into his father’s open arms...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Sophia, early 20s British Pakistani, shares how as a cherished youngest child, she got all her parents’ affection and kisses. Only ‘huggable’ at home, she struggled with the ‘c’ word-confidence. When an encounter with Fauzia Baaji...

Aurora Metro Books, 2012

Aurora Metro Books

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Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (26), Female (9), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy's boys or blokes under their missus' thumbs? Self-made entrepreneurs, pukka professionals and successful executives with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer-clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles...