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Touchstone Tales - Stories of Touch Inspired by the Lives of Lutonians (Paperback)
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Touchstone Tales - Stories of Touch Inspired by the Lives of Lutonians (Paperback)
Series: Modern Plays
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Loot Price R377
Discovery Miles 3 770
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How important is touch to you? Is there enough touch in the world
or are we experiencing collective 'touch hunger' in these troubling
times? Touchstone Tales is a unique collection of revealing and
illuminating stories of Lutonians, seen through the prism of touch.
Originally a Revoluton Arts/Wellcome collection co-commission, it
is part of Wellcome's national arts partnership programme and is an
artist response to 'The Touch Test', Wellcome's study on the role
that touch plays in the lives and well-being of people. Pholi, a
Sikh widow in isolation reminisces about Romancing in Bury Park in
the 60s and delights in the children of her Polish neighbours.
Hamza aka Desi cake lover awaits his Amazon parcels hoping that the
arrival of 'rose petals' for his Persian love cake will help him
find love in lockdown, The Ninja Sister inspires Sophia out of her
shell and gives her the gift of confidence and faith in God,
through sparring with the 'sisters' at Pink Diamond martial arts
Club and in The Eid Hug, Anwar searches for his father's full
embrace, even in middle age. Farid and Manju celebrate their
inter-faith friendship through iconic song and stories of lost
loves and youth in The Fairy Queen, Nazira shares her buried secret
in And the world kept turning, and offers touch through performing
the last rites for others, a particularly humbling experience
during Covid 19 and Atif in Paisley and Roses helps customers to
adorn themselves in silks and shawls and realises that it is his
absent mother's touch that he is longing for in her fineries.
Written by award-winning author Sudha Bhuchar, the play explores
the theme of touch through a collection of fictional self-portrait
monologues and a dualogue, directly inspired by creative encounters
with mainly the British Muslim South Asian communities in Bury
Park, Luton.
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