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Author Qureshi, Iman, author.

Title The funeral director / Iman Qureshi.

Publication Info. London : Nick Hern Books, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "NHB Modern Plays."
Acts: 3. Scenes: 9. Roles: Male (2) , Female (2) , Neutral (0).
Theme: Family; Religion; Cultural difference; Death. Genre: Naturalistic/realistic drama; British drama. Period: 2011-2020. Place: Regional; United Kingdom; London.
Summary Iman Qureshi's play The Funeral Director is a drama about the director of a Muslim funeral parlour, exploring sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. It was the winner of the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize, and premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, on 31 October 2018, produced by Papatango Theatre Company. It toured in a co-production between Papatango Theatre Company and English Touring Theatre in 2019. The play is set in a 'small divided town in the Midlands' in 2015. Ayesha is a twenty-seven-year-old British Pakistani woman, and co-director of a Muslim funeral parlour with her husband Zeyd. When Tom, a gay man in his late twenties, walks in to organise his boyfriend's funeral, a snap moral decision, informed by the values of Ayesha's community and faith, has profound consequences, and Ayesha is forced to confront a secret she has hidden even from herself. The premiere production was directed by Hannah Hauer-King with set and costume design by Amy Jane Cook. It was performed by Aryana Ramkhalawon, Maanuv Thiara, Tom Morley and Jessica Clark.
Local Note Bloomsbury Drama Online Nick Hern Books Modern Plays - Annual Update 2020
Subject Muslims -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Muslims.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Muslim women -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Muslim women.
Gay men -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Gay men.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Drama.
Undertakers and undertaking.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Gay men.
Genre/Form Academic theses.
Academic theses.
ISBN 9781848427969 (print)
Standard No. 10.5040/9781784605452.00000002