The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film – a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.
Pakistani chip-shop owner George Khan – 'Genghis' to his kids – is determined to give his six children a strict Muslim upbringing against the unforgiving backdrop of 1970s Salford. Household tensions reach breaking point as their long-suffering English mother, Ella, gets caught in the crossfire – her loyalty divided between her marriage and the free will of her children.
Ayub Khan Din's 'astonishingly assured first play' (Bimingham Post) premiered in 1996, in a co-production between Tamasha Theatre Company, Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court. The film adaptation that followed, with a screenplay by the author, became one of the most successful British films ever made.
This edition contains a revised version of the play first performed at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in October 2014, in a Jamie Lloyd production featuring Ayub Khan Din as George and Jane Horrocks as Ella.
- ISBN10 1848424256
- ISBN13 9781848424258
- Publish Date 2 October 2014 (first published 23 January 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 June 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Nick Hern Books
- Edition West End edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 88
- Language English