RUTH CARTER   


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Plays by Ruth Carter

RUTH CARTER
Women of the Dust
1st Produced:
Bristol Old Vic
1992
Company:
Tamasha
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London,
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The 'women of the dust' have been brought from drought-ridden Rajasthan by the Jamadar (middle man) to work for a Delhi 'fat cat' building a large complex in the developing capital.
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RUTH CARTER
Yearning, A
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
Tamasha
1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 2000
ISBN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A transposition of Lorca's Yerma into the Punjabi community of Britain. Amar, a bride from India, marries Jaz, a Glaswegian Punjabi, and comes to live in Birmingham. She yearns for a child, but Jaz, the owner of a mini-cab firm, is too preoccupied with business to concern himself with her loneliness and longing
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