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TANIYA HOSSAIN |
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Nationality: Asian American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Taniya Hossain |
Mother in Another Language | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salaam | 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 | #67119 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | When Tarak, a Bengali ex-pat, and Karen, an American, decide to get married, they know they're in for some cultural difficulties. But when Tarak buys them a brownstone and asks permission to move his mother into the basement apartment, Karen knows she's getting more than she bargained for. Hoping that Tarak's mother is nothing like her own mother, BlanchÆ a brash, independent woman on her fourth marriage Æ Karen agrees but nothing prepares her for the arrival of Meena, Tarak's mother. Instead of taking over the brownstone, Meena manages to make her apartment the center of the house. Things go from bad to worse when Karen's mother, Blanch, is suddenly broke and homeless. Blanch moves in with Meena turning them into the odd couple from hell. Blanch's modern woman ways conflict with Meena's traditional Bengali household. But the mothers stay together finding a new respect for each other. Now they have to teach their children the lesson of compromise before the engagement is called off. | |||||
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