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Hurling Rubble at the Sun/Hurling Rubble at the Moon Avaes Mohammad

Hurling Rubble at the Sun/Hurling Rubble at the Moon By Avaes Mohammad

Hurling Rubble at the Sun/Hurling Rubble at the Moon by Avaes Mohammad


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Two plays, companion pieces, portraying two different realities of a British White male and a British Asian male.

Hurling Rubble at the Sun/Hurling Rubble at the Moon Summary

Hurling Rubble at the Sun/Hurling Rubble at the Moon by Avaes Mohammad

Hurling Rubble at the Sun That side of town. July 2005. One blistering night. One blazing day. T labours over hot-plates cooking up the final ingredients for his mission while his mother labours over a hot stove, cooking up his final meal. Wearied by staring into all-consuming retribution, T reaches out to her seeking fresh insight. Desperate to be folded into her bosom once again, instead he's thrust onto a course of his own design, but with a force far greater than his alone. Hurling Rubble at the Moon This side of town. The first years of the millennium and Skef's dad is back. Reliving his glory days on the terraces, he stands shoulder to shoulder with his son for the first time as they give it to the Asians. For Skef this isn't about reliving bygone glory but reclaiming all that's fast being stolen by the new insidious scourge all around. But, committed to battling this enemy within, he's in danger of soiling the very thing he's fighting for by violating the very thing he loves.

Hurling Rubble at the Sun/Hurling Rubble at the Moon Reviews

Avaes Mohammad, with wise understatement, aims simply to put the spotlight on this cultural schizophrenia, asking what it might mean to live as a young man in a working class northern town where racism is rampant... If the point of the double bill were to create an idea of simple cause and effect between BNP elements and Islamic fundamentalists, then it would fail. Yet Mohammad simply, and effectively, shows how the colliding of worlds is part of a wider problem. * Time Out *

About Avaes Mohammad

Avaes Mohammad's plays include Bhopal, In God We Trust, The Student, Shadow Companion, Crystal Kisses, Fields of Grey, Of Another World. He is currently Associate Artist with Red Ladder Theatre Company, Tamasha Theatre Company and Fellow of the Muslim Institute. He also recently founded the Lahore Agitprop Theatre Company in Pakistan. Avaes has also conducted workshops worldwide with organisations that include The Royal Court (London), English PEN, British Council and the Alternative Living Theatre (India). In 2012 he co-founded The Lahore Agitprop Theatre Company in Pakistan. Committed to the evolving landscape of British Arts, Avaes has directed the British South Asian Theatre Memories Project in partnership with the Foundation of Indian Performing Arts (FIPA) and SOAS, archiving the collective journeys of British South Asian Theatre through the narratives of its practitioners.

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NPB9781783198979
9781783198979
1783198974
Hurling Rubble at the Sun/Hurling Rubble at the Moon by Avaes Mohammad
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2015-05-14
112
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