The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are all caught between their Pakistani father's insistence on Asian traditions, their English mother's laissez-faire attitude, and their own wish to become citizens of the modern world.
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1996, Birmingham Repertory Theatre Studio, UK
2014
Nick Hern Books
9781854593139
Published in collection under ISBN 9781848424241: https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/ayub-khan-din-plays-one
Published in collection under ISBN 9781848424241: https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/ayub-khan-din-plays-one
Realistic
Three siblings search a park for their missing mother, and in the process, reveal conflicts and secrets that threaten to tear their family apart whether they find their Mom, or not. Each of them struggles with the battle between the needs of the others and their own emotional survival.
Plays with Music
Constance Ledbelly is trying to decipher a coded manuscript which she believes is the lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Not only does she decode the manuscript but she literally falls into the two plays and causes each of them to turn from tragedy to comedy. "It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down. Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered “spinster” academic, and unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ultimately, her own identity. When she deciphers an ancient and neglected manuscript, Constance is propelled through a very modern rabbit hole and lands smack in the middle of the tragic turning points of each play in turn. Her attempts to save first Desdemona, then Juliet, from their harrowing fates, result in a wild unpredictable ride through comedy and near-tragedy, as mild-mannered Constance learns to love, sword-fight, dance Renaissance-style, and master a series of disguises… Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp, where irony and anger sing in perfect harmony with innocence and poignancy." - from the author's website
