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Join us for a conversation on the influential play East is East, with the creative team from the first production in 1996. Hear from director Kristine Landon-Smith, designer Sue Mayes, actor Paul Bazely and Iqbal Khan and Natashi Kathi-Chandra, the director and associate director of the 25th-anniversary production. The talk will be chaired by Sudha Bhuchar, co-founder of Tamasha Theatre and current Artistic Director of Bhuchar Boulevard.
Set in Salford during the 1970s, East is East examines the push and pull of growing up in a working-class, mixed-race household. Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, East is East has since become a beloved classic, adapted into a feature film in 1999. The play has recently enjoyed a 25th-anniversary tour in Birmingham and London.
Header image: Chris Bisson (b.1975) as Saleem Khan, Zita Sattar (b.1975) as Meenah Khan and Jimi Mistry (b.1973) as Tariq Khan, in Ayub Khan-Din's (b.1961) East is East at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Studio, photo Douglas H. Jeffery (1917-2009). Photograph. London, England, 1996 © Douglas H. Jeffery / Victoria and Albert Museum, London