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Ayub Khan-Din

AYUB KHAN-DIN

  (1961 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Ayub Khan-Din studied Drama at Salford College of Technology and at Mountview Theatre School. after graduating, he joined Tara Arts, appearing in numerous productions with them, including Tartuffe at the National Theatre. His other acting work includes playing Sammy in the film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, appearing in Coronation Street and playing the title role in a film of Dostoyevsky's the Idiot. His first play, east is east, was staged as a co-production between Tamasha, the Royal Court and Birmingham Rep, and opened in Birmingham in 1996. after its Royal Court run, it transferred to the Theatre Royal Stratford and then to the West end, winning the John Whiting award, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best West end Play and Best New Writer awards. the film of east is east, with screenplay by ayub Khan-Din, won the British Independent Film award for Best Screenplay, BBC asia award, evening Standard Best Film, empire Magazine Best Debut, Galway Film Fleadh Best First Feature, and the Golden Spike at the Valladolid Film Festival in Spain.

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         All the Way Home         East Is East         Last Dance At Dum Dum         Notes On Falling Leaves         Rafta, Rafta         To Sir, With Love

All the Way Home

Synopsis:
Bonfire Night. Present day Salford. a disparate group of warring siblings gather at the family home under the shadow of impending loss. Brian, now a successful photographer, returns to find his family both familiar and unfamiliar. amidst the cut and thrust of spiky Salford banter, long harboured resentments rise to the surface, and loyalties are tested as family bonds unite and divide, unravel and unwind. all the Way Home is a deeply emotional comedy Drama that explores the relationships we have with our roots, and with those that we love but dont always understand.

Notes:
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Organisations:
Library Theatre Company and the Lowr

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Music:
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Genre:
comedy Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

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East Is East

East Is East
Children of a Pakistani Father who is clinging to his Asian traditions and an english mother with a laissez-faire attitude, the Khans each try to find their own way of growing up in 1970s Salford.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tamaha

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 1997   978-1854593139

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Last Dance At Dum Dum

Last Dance At Dum Dum
a play about the dying breed of anglo-Indians living in Calcutta. Set in 1981, the play is a serious comedy about a vividly memorable gang of eccentrics and exotics who are attempting to come to terms with their pasts and their fears for the future. their world is filled with Violet's hilarious obsession with all things British, elliot's questionable dress sense, Daphne's weakness for French records and the confrontational outbursts of the slightly mad Muriel who would do anything to defend their territory against the Hindu fundamentalists looming just behind the garden wall.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Ambassadors, London    08 Jul 1999

Organisations:
Royal Court Theatre

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>,    978-1854594563

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Notes On Falling Leaves

Notes On Falling Leaves
as his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own foggy memories and feelings about why they try, but just can't, communicate.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2004   978-1854598042

Music:
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Rafta, Rafta

Rafta, Rafta
the wedding feast is over and his father's dancing the bhangra, but the groom himself is busy on the net. When it's time for bed. he's so woefullv inhibited by the proximity bf his parents, let alone his brother's childish pranks, that his beautiful virgin bride remains just that Six weeks later, the whole family start to panic. a hugely warm-hearted. comic tale of close-knit Indian family life in england

Notes:
based on All In A Good Time by Bill Naughton

1st Produced:

Organisations:
National theare Company

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2007   978-1854599933

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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To Sir, With Love

To Sir, With Love
An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain. Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post, in a tough but progressive East End school. Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realised.

Notes:
Based on the novel by E R Braithwaite

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  extras

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