A National Theatre and TARA Arts co-production
The Black Album
by Hanif Kureishi
Tue 17 - Sat 21 Nov 2009 7.30pm
Theatre: £21 (£19), £23 (£21), £25 (£23)
Director: Jatinder Verma
Production Company: A National Theatre and TARA Arts co-production
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CloseReligion is for the benefit of the masses, not for brain-box types like you. Those simpletons require strict rules for living, otherwise they would still think the earth sits on three fishes. But you mind-wallahs must know it’s a lot of balls.
An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it’s 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West.
We’re not blasted Christians. We don’t turn the other buttock. We will fight for our people who are being tortured anywhere – in Palestine, Afghanistan, Kashmir, East End!
Hanif Kureishi’s witty stage adaptation of his strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel, The Black Album, humorously considers how the events of 1989 have shaped today’s world, where fundamentalism battles liberalism.
Age Guidance: 14+
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Dates & Times
| Tue 17 Nov | Theatre | 7:30pm | ||
| Wed 18 Nov | Theatre | 7:30pm | ||
| Thu 19 Nov | Theatre | 7:30pm | ||
| Fri 20 Nov | Theatre | 7:30pm | ||
| Sat 21 Nov | Theatre | 7:30pm |
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Seating up to 550, audiences are assured of an excellent view of the stage and comfortable seating in this well-designed auditorium. The theatre stages the best national and international plays and performances, as well as contemporary and international dance, music and comedians.
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