RUTH CARTER
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Plays by 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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. | |||||
Yearning, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | Tamasha | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2000 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | |||||