East Is East: A Screenplay - Softcover

Khan-Din, Ayub

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9780786885862: East Is East: A Screenplay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786885866 ISBN 13: 9780786885862

Publisher: Miramax, 2000

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This play is set in Salford, in 1970, where the Khan children are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani father's insistence on tradition, their English mother's laissez-faire, and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world.

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About the Author:

Ayub Khan-Din's East is East won the John Whiting and Writers' Guild Awards and the film version won "Best Film" at the British Comedy Awards. His second play, Last Dance at Dum Dum premiered in the West End.

Review:

"'First plays don't come much better than this... full of intelligence, irresistible laughter and serious promise.' Sunday Times 'A tremendous achievement.. a hugely entertaining, highly involving, emotionally tender, politically inflamed family drama' Time Out"

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