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The Funeral Director (NHB Modern Plays

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The Funeral Director (NHB Modern Plays

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Iman Qureshi's play The Funeral Director is a drama about the director of a Muslim funeral parlour, exploring sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. It was the winner of the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize, and premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, on 31 October 2018, produced by Papatango Theatre Company. It toured in a co-production between Papatango Theatre Company and English Touring Theatre in 2019. The play is set in a 'small divided town in the Midlands' in 2015. Ayesha is a twenty-seven-year-old British Pakistani woman, and co-director of a Muslim funeral parlour with her husband Zeyd. When Tom, a gay man in his late twenties, walks in to organise his boyfriend's funeral, a snap moral decision, informed by the values of Ayesha's community and faith, has profound consequences, and Ayesha is forced to confront a secret she has hidden even from herself. The premiere production was directed by Hannah Hauer-King with set and costume design by Amy Jane Cook. It was performed by Aryana Ramkhalawon, Maanuv Thiara, Tom Morley and Jessica Clark

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Original Production; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Characters; Note on Costume; Setting; Time; Music; Note on Text; The Funeral Director; Act One; Scene One; Scene Two; Scene Three; Act Two; Scene One; Scene Two; Scene Three; Act Three; Scene One; Scene Two; Scene Three; About the Author; Copyright and Performing Rights Information