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Ayub Khan Din Plays: One (Paperback)
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Ayub Khan Din Plays: One (Paperback)
Series: NHB Modern Plays
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This collection of plays written and introduced by
actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din charts the development of a
writer able to turn the tumultuous experience of life in modern
Britain into satisfying, humane and often richly comic drama.
Whether drawing on his own childhood, growing up in an
Anglo-Pakistani family in Salford, or on E.R. Braithwaite's account
of racial tensions in the East End in To Sir, With Love, he depicts
the struggles of individuals to come to terms with their
conflicting cultural legacies - and he does so with unerring warmth
and compassion. East is East (1996) is an irresistible comedy set
in multiracial Salford in 1970, where the Khan children are
buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani father's insistence
on tradition, their English mother's laissez-faire and their own
wish to be citizens of the modern world. The film adaptation that
followed, with a screenplay by the author, became one of the most
successful British films ever made. The version included here is
the revised text first performed at the Trafalgar Studios in 2014.
The short, elegiac play, Notes on Falling Leaves (2004), is an
emotionally tender depiction of a young man as he loses his mother
to dementia, 'overwhelming in its emotional impact' (Telegraph). In
All the Way Home (2011), a quarrelsome group of siblings gathers at
the family home under the shadow of impending loss. Amidst the cut
and thrust of spiky Salford banter, long-harboured resentments rise
to the surface and family bonds unravel and unwind. To Sir, With
Love (2013), based on E.R. Braithwaite's autobiographical novel, is
the uplifting story of a talented, idealistic young teacher
discovering the reality of life as a black man in Britain after the
Second World War as he struggles to find a way to connect with his
students at a tough but progressive East End school.
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