Description
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
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
