Ambreen Razia

The Diary of a Hounslow Girl (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of a modern Asian young woman trying to straddle Western attitudes and traditional beliefs.

You've heard of an Essex Girl or even a Chelsea Girl but what is a Hounslow Girl? The term has become a byword for confident, young Muslim women who are grappling with traditional values, city life and fashion.

From the joys of Pakistani weddings to fights on the night bus, Ambreen Razia's The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is a funny, bold, provocative play highlighting the challenges of being a teenage girl in a traditional Muslim family, alongside the temptations and influences of growing up in and around London.

"Ambreen's writing is poetic in its structure and intensity, funny, moving, chilling, and delivered in a style that takes inspiration from spoken word and physical theatre. She has created a rhythm that draws the audience in, as compelling as a thriller, complete with gathering ominousness, shocks and comic relief." Deborah Bestwick, Director, Ovalhouse

"Ambreen Razia's terrific play is exactly the kind of new work we wish to support in the new home of multi-cultural theatre in London. Hounslow Girl is a wonderfully funny take on a London phenomenon and one audiences will enjoy." Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director, Tara Arts"

"a powerful piece of theatre... Ambreen Razia's performance is astonishing." BritishTheatre.com

"This is a sophisticated, moving and often very funny piece of writing, particularly nuanced in its depiction of Shaheeda's relationship with her mother ... astute in tackling the breakdown of the loving bonds between parent and child that can occur when a child becomes a teenager - and also how this experience can be magnified for the children of first-generation immigrants, whose parents feel distant from their children's British lives... Razia's script touches on everything from first love to cultural expectations to student-teacher relationships; it's a bit like an inner-city version of An Education." The Stage

Ambreen Razia is an actress and writer from South London. The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is Ambreen's debut show which premiered at Ovalhouse in 2015. Passionate about re-establishing British Asian comedy within the UK, she continues to write her comedy sketch show involving two British Asian girls exploring the clash between traditional Indian/Pakistani culture and modern British life. She is also currently writing her next play POT primarily focusing on the recent comeback of gang culture within the UK. Performance credits include: On the Middle Day (Old Vic Theatre); Words and Women (Edinburgh Fringe); Random Acts (Channel 4); Fair Exchange (Hen and Chickens Theatre); Variations on a Theme (Camden People's Theatre); Mind the Gap (National Theatre); No Guts, No Heart, No Glory (BBC4/Perth Festival Australia) and Murdered by my Father (BBC3).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aurora Metro Books
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910798966
• Artikelnr.: 48040535

Autorenporträt

Ambreen Razia (born 1992) is an English actress and writer. She wrote and appeared in the sitcom Hounslow Diaries (2018). She has also appeared in the television series Murdered by my Father (2016), Trigonometry (2019), This Way Up (2019), Black Mirror (2019), Scrapper (2020), The Long Goodbye (2021), Starstruck (2022), The Curse (2022), and Ted Lasso (2023).In 2023, Razia secured a development deal with Expectation Entertainment to write a comedy drama series, Wasted, about a South Asian immigrant mother and daughter.BackgroundRazia was born in 1992 in South London to a Pakistani single mother. She took her grandmother's given name, Razia, as her surname. Razia graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of West London in 2013 and training at the Identity School of Acting (IDSA). Prior to this, she attended Kingston College where she studied a Btec in performing arts. She also attended Ricards Lodge School in South West London.In 2015, Razia wrote and starred in the one-woman show 'The Diary of a Hounslow Girl' at the Oval House Theatre in London. She took the show on a UK tour in 2016.That year, Razia was named best newcomer at the Asian Media Awards.