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SAIKAT AHAMED
Nationality: British
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Saikat is a writer and actor based in Bristol. He has been an actor for around 15 years, working on stage, screen and radio. Theatre work includes shows at Birmingham Rep, Bristol Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre and The Kennedy Centre whilst work on TV and film includes parts in Monday Monday (ITV) and smash hit British comedies East is East (CH4 / Assassin Films) and Trollied (Sky TV). As a writer, Saikat has completed a number of plays including his solo shows, The Tiger and The Moustache which toured nationally in 2014 and Strictly Balti which recently played the Gilded Balloon as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His first radio play, Telling Tales, was commissioned and aired on the BBC Asian Network. For the last 10 years, Saikat has also worked as a professional storyteller across the UK.
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Strictly Balti Tiger and the Moustache, TheStrictly Balti
Synopsis:
We thought dance class was good, we thought dance class was English. We were wrong. Now we see you are fully English, because you argue with your parents. In Bangladesh this wouldn't happen. Ballroom dancing is not the only humiliation heaped on Saikat by his ambitious parents. There's catechism and Latin too. And no one gets his name right, ever. Join Saikat as he dances precariously through his dual-identity childhood, torn between the familiar sights of Birmingham and the mysteries of Bangladesh. The play takes a humorous look at what it means to be British from someone who had to learn the hard way. It's a show about being a second generation immigrant in the UK but it's for anyone who ever had to grow up.
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02 Oct 2014
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Synopsis:
Where do we come from and what makes us who we are? Is our destiny written in the stars or stamped in a passport? We all have a journey to make, stupid girl, even you. Born on the very first day of a new nation, Hashi, the girl who always smiles, grew up surrounded by flying tigers in the Sunderban jungles. In The Tiger and the Moustache, local actor and writer Saikat Ahamed (TFT's Cinderella: A Fairytale, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Bristol Old Vic's Treasure Island and Peter Pan) traces the journey of Hashi, his mother, and the emerging nation of Bangladesh. Travel with him as he slides in and out of time, from the agonies of Partition in 1947 right up to the present day, boarding fishing boats up the Meghna River and rickshaws along the dusty roads of Dacca. From East London to East Bengal, taking in Birmingham, Germany and Glasgow, this story of Bangladesh is woven together through storytelling, theatre, live music, dance and a healthy amount of humour. The Tiger and the Moustache (previously Bangladesh) was originally developed with support from Bristol Ferment at Bristol Old Vic.. Running time: 1hr 15mins
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