Homing Birds

£9.99

Reversing the usual refugee story clichés, Homing Birds shares the hopes, fears and aspirations of a young man searching for a place in which he feels he truly belongs.

Young Afghan refugee Saeed desperately wants to reconnect with his roots and find his long-lost sister. So he leaves his adoptive family in London and returns home to Kabul to work as a doctor, eager to contribute to rebuilding a new Afghanistan.

But as past and present collide, Saeed must face up to the reality of his changed world. This captivating and evocative play asks if a place can ever be home without a connection to family and roots?

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Rukhsana Ahmad

Reversing the usual refugee story clichés, Homing Birds shares the hopes, fears and aspirations of a young man searching for a place in which he feels he truly belongs.

Young Afghan refugee Saeed desperately wants to reconnect with his roots and find his long-lost sister. So he leaves his adoptive family in London and returns home to Kabul to work as a doctor, eager to contribute to rebuilding a new Afghanistan.

But as past and present collide, Saeed must face up to the reality of his changed world. This captivating and evocative play asks if a place can ever be home without a connection to family and roots?

 

RUKHSANA AHMAD

Award-winning writer Rukhsana Ahmad has written and adapted many plays for stage and BBC Radio. River on Fire was a finalist in the Susan Smith Blackburn Awards, Wide Sargasso Sea was a finalist for the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Adaptation and Song for a Sanctuary was a finalist for the CRE award for best original radio drama. Other plays include Mistaken: Annie Besant in India and Letting Go.

She has also written fiction: The Hope Chest and The Gatekeeper’s Wife and other stories.  She has also translated We Sinful Women, a collection of contemporary Urdu feminist poetry and The One Who Did Not Ask by Altaf Fatima.

REVIEWS

Rukhsana Ahmad: Homing Birds | ThisWeek Culture

Homing Birds by Rukhsana Ahmad | Drama And Theatre

“a work of significance and spirited potency, a deep and intelligent examination of people and themes too rarely presented on stage” ****

Homing Birds | Tara Theatre | thespyinthestalls.com

Theatre Cricket | I watch fun, dramatic stuff and then chirp about it. (wordpress.com)

Homing Birds at the Tara Theatre | View From The Outside

‘The migration debate never stopped hounding settlers’ – EasternEye

Writer, Playwright and Translator Rukhsana Ahmad talks about her latest show ‘Homing Birds’ showing at Tara Arts! | Theatrefullstop

REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS WORK

“… the debates about belief and faith are clear and compelling and the play also bravely grapples with big spiritual ideas…”
– Aleks Sierz, theatre critic

“… sensitive approach gives painful credibility to the dilemmas facing women with nowhere else to go.”
– The Independent

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