East is East by Ayub Khan Din
A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.'A bona fide classic'
* Guardian *'First plays don't come much better than this.. full of intelligence, irresistible laughter and serious promise'
* Sunday Times *'A hugely entertaining, highly involving, emotionally tender, politically inflamed family drama'
* Time Out *'An explosion of a show that feels surprisingly, joyously, fresh, a quarter of a century on'
* Guardian (2021) *'Khan Din's play is bitterly and wickedly funny... Its explorations of identity, race, relationships, power, gender dynamics and familial aspiration ensure it still has as much to say to audiences of 2021 as it did 25 years ago' * Whatsonstage (2021) *
Ayub Khan Din’s play East is East (1996) was originally staged at the Royal Court Theatre and adapted into a feature film. The play and film have won a Writers’ Guild Award for Best New Writer and a British Academy Award. Other plays include Last Dance at Dum Dum (1999), Notes on Falling Leaves (2004) and Rafta, Rafta… (2007), which won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. A film adaptation, All in Good Time, was released in 2012, a year after his sequel to East is East, named West is West. His most recent plays have been All the Way Home, directed by Mark Babych at the Lowry Theatre in Salford, musical comedy Bunty Berman Presents, produced on Broadway by The New Group, and an adaptation of E.R. Braithwaite’s To Sir, With Love.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781854593139 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854593137 |
| Title | East is East |
| Author | Ayub Khan Din |
| Series | Nhb Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 1997-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 91 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the John Whiting Award 1996 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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