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RUHKSANA AHMAD |
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Literary Agent: MBA Literary Agents Ltd |
Rukhsana was born in Pakistan and is now based in South London. She has been a professional writer for many years and was co-founder and until recently Artistic Director of the Kali Theatre Company.
Plays by Ruhksana Ahmad
Black Shalwar | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | Kali Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #277 | |||
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Genre: | 50 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Footprints In The Sand | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Pursued by a Bear | |||||
| 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 | #84276 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gate-Keeper's Wife, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | at Hawth Theatre, Crawley | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Alarmist Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #41271 | |||
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Genre: | 50 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last Chance | ||
| 1st Produced: | part of the International Women's Day in Dhaka | - - - | ||||
Company: | Commissioned by British Council Dhaka | |||||
| 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 | #41270 | |||
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Genre: | 45 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1b 1g | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Letting Go | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oval House Theatre, 52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW >>> | 15 Apr 2008 | ||||
Company: | Pursued By A Bear | |||||
| 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 | #92794 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A witty and heartfelt piece For One Night Only tugs at the heartstrings and entertains as much as it provokes. Letting Go by Rukhsana Ahmad is a haunting love story set in Dover focusing on the relationship between a Liberian Asylum Seeker and a British Asian teacher. Both are imprisoned by their pasts, unable to move forward until the intervention of the mysterious Raza. An atmospheric and evocative piece, Letting Go deals with the anguish of leaving those you love and the terrible choices that some of us must face. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man Who Refused To Be God, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #41268 | |||
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Genre: | 95 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mistaken The Annie Besant Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford | 25 Apr 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #92795 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Synopsis: | In 1914 English activist Annie Besant went to India. The British courts had taken her children into care. She tries to adopt two Brahmin boys - but their father tries to prevent this. She declares one of the boys is the new Messiah. She co-founds the Movement for Indian Independence. Gandhi is at first a supporter | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New Constitution | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toured schools and Theatro Technis, Camden | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #41272 | |||
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Genre: | Young people's Theatre , 50 min Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Partners In Crime | ||
| 1st Produced: | LIFT | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #41269 | |||
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Genre: | 40 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prayer Mats And Tin Cans | ||
| 1st Produced: | Worcester Arts Workshop | - - - | ||||
Company: | drama students and community members. | |||||
| 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 | #41274 | |||
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Genre: | Young people's Theatre , 70 min Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | numerous | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rags To Riches | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Black Theatre Forum | |||||
| 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 | #92796 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Recall | ||
| 1st Produced: | Middlesborough Youth Theatre Group | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #41273 | |||
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Genre: | Young people's Theatre , 35 min Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | numerous | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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River On Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #278 | |||
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Genre: | 100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sepoy's Salt, Captain's Malt | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #92797 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Songs For A Sanctuary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Asian Women Writer's Workshop | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Kali Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Six Plays by Black and Asian Women, ed Khadija George, Aurora Metro, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #279 | |||
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Genre: | Reading, 100 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Zarina and the King | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #92798 | |||
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