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Oval House Theatre, London >>>

1999

Kali Theatre Company

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Synopsis: Sultana, a feisty prostitute, falls in love and surrenders her independence to a dreamer who persuades her to give up her lucrative post in Ambala Cantonment and move to metropolitan Delhi. Soon, he turns to mysticism and she begins to lose her own grip on reality. She is jolted awake when she discovers that the charming Shankar whose courting has comforted her loneliest moments has been sleeping with her best friend too.

Oval House Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2008

Pursued by a Bear

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Notes: part of Footprints in the Sand

Synopsis: poignant tale of Abbas, a refugee from Liberia, who waits in vain on the beach at Dover for his 'lost' brother to find him. Trapped in the trauma of his past, he struggles to respond to the overtures of his English teacher Prem, who is tussling with her own demons.
- Siobhan Murphy, Metro London

at Hawth Theatre, Crawley

1996

Alarmist Theatre

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50 min

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Synopsis: Annette, bored with her childless middle class existence as a postcolonial memsahib takes up supervising feeding times at the zoo on a voluntary basis only to be stumped by Tara, the thieving gate-keeper's wife. Tara claims that Annette's favourite cheetah, Heera is a saint who will not eat if Tara's children go hungry. In a moment of epiphany she is forced to confront the unhappiness that is consuming her marriage.

part of the International Women's Day in Dhaka

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45 min

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Synopsis: Sheela, a 29 yrs old actor visits her mother Shabnam and ailing grandmother, Zainab in Dhaka laden with expensive gifts. 12 yr old Razia is waiting for a new mobile phone. Her grandmother is longing for Sheela to get married this time but she announces that she must return to a part in a big Bollywood cross-over movie. To her mother's rage she is still not ready to take her daughter 12 yr old daughter Razia back with her. Shabnam is weary of the responsibility and the child is running out of her control now. As they argue the family's darkest secret that Razia is Sheela's daughter, not her sister, bursts into the open hurting both the child and the grandmother. Zainab trips and goes into diabetic coma. As they nurse her Sheela and Shabnam come to a painful reconciliation -Shabnam decides to concede to her daughter's will yet once more and she and Razia are left waiting for the prodigal's daughter's next visit.

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Synopsis: The Man who - tells the story of the Anglo-Indian philosopher Krishnamurti's tortured affair with Rosalind Williams, the wife of his compatriot and business manager, Rajagopal. All three are old friends caught in a triangle because of their affiliation with a curious cult, Theosophy. Krishna rejects the role of Messiah imposed upon him by the cult his and patron and foster mother Annie Besant, sheds celibacy and begins a spiritual quest that leaves his dearest friends and allies wondering if he is a saint or a sinner

Toured schools and Theatro Technis, Camden

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Young people's Theatre , 50 min

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Synopsis: Mungoo, a horsecab driver is labouring under the delusion that the British are abdicating power when the Home Rule Ordinance is activated. Only to discover on the morning of April 1st that nothing has changed.

LIFT

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Synopsis: A British company is on tour in Lahore with a Shakespeare play. The lead actress, Sara Stevens has a special interest in Pakistan because her mother is Anglo-Indian. She had meant to visit her grandfather's family who still live there. But things go horribly awry when an incident occurs in the auditorium sparked off by a minor act of protest in the repressive, over-armed atmosphere in the country. The arrest of her dresser, Razia, for the suspected theft of Sara's passport leads to a fresh spiral of violence that builds to a surreal level of horror ending in a scene where things are no longer what they had seemed to be.

Worcester Arts Workshop

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Young people's Theatre , 70 min

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Synopsis: Two young girls, an Italian and a Pakistani strike up a friendship at a time when the newest wave of migrant workers is finding it hard to survive in a country that is determined to downsize its factories. Earlier migrants, Italians, look all set to return. A story of generational conflict and culture shock set in a climate of redundancies and change.

Middlesborough Youth Theatre Group

1989

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Young people's Theatre , 35 min

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Synopsis: An innocent Asian man and his English wife face the wrath of a rioting mob who attack and burn down their curry restaurant because a black man is suspected of murdering a white. The couple flee to Newcastle start all over again. The painful memory of the nightmarish attack is relived by their daughter who assembles family history from photographs and newspaper cuttings.

Lyric Studio Theatre, Hammersmith, London >>>

2000

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Notes: Runner up for International Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Synopsis: Desperate for work, Kiran is thrilled when Indian film director, Waheed, casts her as a Mogul Princess in a Bollywood film version of Antigone scripted by her mother. But Bombay is not the tinsel town she expected. Real life throws her off balance when Hindu Muslim riots erupt in the city and she finds herself drawn into a battle with her own family in a situation where life begins to imitate art

Asian Women Writer's Workshop

1990

Kali Theatre Company

in Six Plays by Black and Asian Women, ed Khadija George, Aurora Metro

1993

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Notes: commissioned by Monstrous Regiment and performed at Worcester May 1991, revived for a national tour beginning at the Lyric, Hammersmith. Produced for BBC Radio 4. Nominated for International Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Synopsis: Radical refuge worker, Kamla, is infuriated by newcomer Rajinder whose religious commitment and conformity to tradition leads to clashes over issues of culture, faith and identity with fellow residents. Lost in their battle for the soul of her young daughter, Savita, both women forget the dangers of a breach of security, with disastrous consequences.