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Brian Faizul Khan

BRIAN FAIZUL KHAN  (1944 - )

 Nationality:    Guyanese/East Indian
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Born in Guyana, South America on September 20, 1944. as an actor, he has played Off Of Broadway, Off Broadway and on Broadway. He has also appeared in films, television and in regional theater. He is a skilled union carpenter. Residence: Westchester County, New York

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below is a list of Brian Faizul Khan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 At The Forks In The Road         Baby's Shadow, The         Don't Go Gentle Into The Night         Jolly Roger         Roti Shop, The         Shanty, The

At The Forks In The Road

Synopsis:
a Non Fiction narrative of my bicycle trip from Guyana, South America, to the United States in 1965, and a comparison of growing up in a poor Third World village and working up to living in the Wealthy town of armonk, a suburb of NYC. How our values are affected by the arrogant attitude of entitlement of the Wall Streeters, the money pimps, who does not understand the value of work with our own hands.

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Non-Fiction Narrative

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Baby's Shadow, The

Synopsis:
a White woman, 35, married to a black West Indian, wants to have a child. a conflict of values of her New York City upbringing and his Guyanese village upbringing. She is emotionally imprisoned and changed from the experience of the 1971 Calif eatrthquake. The child is born with severe disabilities that her husband blames on her drug use as an older teenager/young adult. She meets a woman who initiates a sexual relationship with her, and now wants a divorce. The consequences of denying who we are and trying to be someone else - we end up sabotaging other people's lives.

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Genre:
Drama - two acts

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Don't Go Gentle Into The Night

Synopsis:
Luis Garcia witnesses a murder by criminals controlling the area. He can't go to the police for fear of being killed. Because he was set up, the police find incriminating evidence against him, and he gets caught in a struggle for survival for himself and his family. Being poor, he cannot pack up and relocate and cannot depend on the police for protection. The struggle of the poor trying to survive at the bottom of the heap.

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Reading - New Dramatists    -

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Drama - Two acts

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Jolly Roger

Synopsis:
a wealthy Wall street banker is crippled in a car accident on his way home from a Christmas party. He is being sued by the surviving son of the family he killed. a man solely concerned about the pursuit of money and wealth, caught in a family upheaval when his wife finds out that he is attempting to kill the kid that is suing him, so he can have his ten (10) million dollars frozen by the judge, to participate in the markets.

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Reading - BPTE    Aug 2010

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Roti Shop, The

Synopsis:
a West Indian Deli in Brooklyn - a Guyanese country woman, SUKI, buys a Roti Shop in Brooklyn with the Insurance money obtained when her husband died making love to her on her 50th birthday. Keith, a painting and taping contractor, and a baker and cook when his business is slow, has been trying to get in her pants with no luck. Keith's brother Derek is playing with his Steel Band in the WI Day Parade in Brooklyn. They convince Suki to go to the Parade, but her daughter is killed in the random violence that erupted after the parade. Keith and his twelve year old daughter moves in with Suki, above the Roti Shop, to be the brick wall she could lean on. Keith had promised to stay away from the gambling and womanizing, but has now fallen back. . .. and the consequences of his action in their relationship, wrapped in the quilt of the Steel Pan music of the Parade.

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Shanty, The

Synopsis:
We must participate in our democracy or a small clique will consolidate power and be our dictators. The play revolves around a hard working skilled carpenter (West Indian) who refuses to participate in the politics of the union or the contractors and attempts to succeed because of his skill. It involves eight other carpenters of multi racial and diverse backgrounds, locked in a Shanty in the job shut down by the local union, and caught in this struggle between the union and the contractor. It deals with the corruption and brutality among construction workers, good men forced to take paths they might have avoided otherwise --- in order to survive in Harlem, New York City

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The Play was optioned for Broadway And was Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for Literature in 1980. Unfortunately, family priorities required that the playwright pull the plug on the option. He only started writing 32 years later - in 2010.

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Theatre at St. Clement's
423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036    1978

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Genre:
Drama - Two acts

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Male:  10            Female:  -            Other:  -

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