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MAYA CHOWDHRY |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Maya Chowdhry |
Crossing Path, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Shell Connections 2003" published by Faber and Faber 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6882 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman allows tarot cards to dictate her life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kaahini | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bradford Theatre in the MIll | May 1997 | ||||
Company: | Red Ladder Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780954520649 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55340 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
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| A highly original yet thoroughly accessible insight into what it means to be young, Asian and British. Filled with the powerful and contradictory emotions of adolescence, Kaahini is brightly coloured, full of warmth and feeling, and shot through with the darker threads of frustration and anger at the inflexible and inexplicable adult world. This play, for all its seemingly unfamiliar Asian context, speaks directly to the widest possible audience - anyone with a mother, father, son, daughter, friend or lover will find much to challenge and inspire them here. " . . . 'Esha' is a 16-year-old 'boy' who is obsessive about his fitness, dreaming of scoring the winning goal in the looming schools' cup final. Esha, however, is actually a girl raised as a male by her parents. She is forced to confront her identity and sexuality when her periods start and she begins to have feelings for her best friend, Farooq. By taking on the female identity of 'Kaahini', she takes tentative steps toward unravelling her 'true' self. To do so, the characters who surround her must also face some uncomfortable truths about themselves. | |||||
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Monsoon | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Black and Asian Plays, Anthology ed Cheryl Robson, Aurora Metro, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49517 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | radio 1991 | |||||
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Splinters | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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 | #6883 | |||
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