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Emteaz Hussain

EMTEAZ HUSSAIN

  
Nationality:    English
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Julia Tyrell Management  

Em Hussain's acclaimed first play 'sweet Cider' was produced in November 2008 at the Arcola Theatre, London. Her second piece 'Blood' was performed in March 10 to sold out audiences at The Gate Theatre as part of Tamasha Theatre Companies Propeller Festival. She is currently working on a research commission for Tamasha, has a pending attachment with the Royal Court Theatre, and is a writer in development with Half Moon Young People's Theatre and Kali Theatre. As a spoken word artist she has performed nationally and internationally and has toured with the Benjamin Zephaniah Band. Em works extensively as a workshop practitioner in both statutory and non-statutory settings, specialising in pupil referral units.

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         Blood         Come to Where I am From         Crongton Knights         For A Button         Outsiders         Social Distancing         Sweet Cider         Trace
Blood

Blood
Caneze meets Sully in the college canteen. The heat rises over triple chilli sauce in Nando's. She makes her move in the sweet smoke of a shisha bar. A touchpaper is lit. . .but neither of them bargained on the lengths to which her brother would go to keep them apart. Blood is a searing and heartfelt new play by the writer of Tamasha's Sweet Cider. Set among a Midlands Pakistani community, Blood is sparky, funny and heart-wrenchingly honest. A timely and contemporary story, this play cuts through political agendas and goes straight to the heart. It lets us into a world governed by links to family and clan, as much as fiercely individual wants and desires.

Notes:
part of Tamasha Theatre Companies Propeller Festival.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tamasha

1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London   

Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://twitter.com/EmteazH

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Come to Where I am From

Synopsis:
Sixty one playwrights from across the UK return to their home towns to write plays about the places that shaped them. At 14 theatres from Bristol to Belfast, Cardiff to Coventry and Nottingham to Newcastle, these plays will be performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Come To Where I'm From is a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home is really where the heart is.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Sheffield Crucible Theatre - Forge Festival     26 May 2010

Organisations:
Paines Plough

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Crongton Knights

Synopsis:
McKay has to help out a girl but it means going into territory owned by a rival gang

Notes:
Based on the novel: "Crongton Knights" by Alex Wheatle

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Pilot Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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For A Button

For A Button
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Plays For Today Women" published by Aurora-Metro Publications 2013   

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Further Reference:
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Outsiders

Synopsis:
The sun was beating down on the beach. Five shots rang out and a man fell to the ground. A nameless Arab, dead. Many years later two women, one French, one Algerian look up at the so blue sky and wonder what really happened to their lives that day and who they and each other are now. Pilot's new production, written by acclaimed writer Emteaz Hussain (Blood), gives voice to the forgotten in a compelling re imagining of Camus' novel, L'Etranger.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Cast, Doncaster     24 Sep 2015

Organisations:
Pilot Theatre in collaboration with the University of York and ATYP Cast, Doncaster

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
piece 65 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Social Distancing

Synopsis:
Fitting in and teenage tiffs

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
Kali Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sweet Cider

Sweet Cider
Set in a park in a Northern British town among its benches, walks and bushes and the swings, slide and roundabout of a children's playground this remarkable first play from emteaz Hussain had its world premier at Dalston's arcola theatre this week. an elderly Pakistan lady seems to have installed herself there. In fact she goes home to sleep in sheltered housing but here she feels more comfortable and she has become a sort of genius loci of the place and, for the younger Pakistanis who come there, a reminder of the culture and traditions they come from. Into this tranquillity, after a night on the town, burst two young women: Tazeem, who is pushing a supermarket trolley, and Nosheen who is riding in it and wearing a scarf around her head. It turns out that this improvised hijab is not worn for religious reasons but rather perhaps because it helps to give her a sense of her own identity for both girls are living in a hostel, a refuge for women who have fled their families. Tazeen finds a job and gets herself a flat but Nosheen can't take the risk of being so public: her family are trying to track her down. This is not the high Drama of young women being hunted by families thinking they have been shamed and set on murder to remove it, but nevertheless they are escaping from a family and an environment that they find oppressive. the young Pakistani men who come here may not live under such strict family control but they too feel the constraint upon their lives, as does the white boy who is in love with one of them, though that may not stop a certain callousness in their behaviour. then there are the families who have lost a daughter, and we see something of their pain and anger too.
- Howard Loxton , British theatre Guide

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tamasha

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
55 min one act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Trace

Synopsis:
The Rotherham child abuse scandal

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Royal Court Theatre, London    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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