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EMTEAZ HUSSAIN |
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Plays by Emteaz Hussain |
Sweet Cider | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Tamasha | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91375 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in a park in a Northern British town among its benches, walks and bushes and the swings, slide and roundabout of a children's playground this remarkable first play from Emteaz Hussain had its world premier at Dalston's Arcola Theatre this week. An elderly Pakistan lady seems to have installed herself there. In fact she goes home to sleep in sheltered housing but here she feels more comfortable and she has become a sort of genius loci of the place and, for the younger Pakistanis who come there, a reminder of the culture and traditions they come from. Into this tranquillity, after a night on the town, burst two young women: Tazeem, who is pushing a supermarket trolley, and Nosheen who is riding in it and wearing a scarf around her head. It turns out that this improvised hijab is not worn for religious reasons but rather perhaps because it helps to give her a sense of her own identity for both girls are living in a hostel, a refuge for women who have fled their families. Tazeen finds a job and gets herself a flat but Nosheen can't take the risk of being so public: her family are trying to track her down. This is not the high drama of young women being hunted by families thinking they have been shamed and set on murder to remove it, but nevertheless they are escaping from a family and an environment that they find oppressive. The young Pakistani men who come here may not live under such strict family control but they too feel the constraint upon their lives, as does the white boy who is in love with one of them, though that may not stop a certain callousness in their behaviour. Then there are the families who have lost a daughter, and we see something of their pain and anger too. | |||||
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