Award-winning show about Muslim-American women to play Old Rep.
After sold-out runs in 2014-2015, the award-winning show about Muslim-American women that reviewers call a “must-see” production plays atThe Old Rep as part of a 15-theatre UK tour.
Cross-cultural sparks fly and preconceptions are hilariously and hauntingly shattered as six Pakistani-American women air their e in the show The Wall Street Journal says “Breaks down stereotypes of Muslim women in America”.
Written and performed by Aizzah Fatima and developed and directed by Erica Gould, Dirty Pakistani Lingerie interweaves the stories of six Muslim–American women, aged six to 65, all portrayed by Fatima in a virtuosic performance. Drawing from real-life incidents and one-on-one interviews with Pakistani-American women, the show is both infectiously funny and deeply moving. Gould’s visually stunning direction incorporates haunting movement and dreamlike projections, as well as razor-sharp physical comedy.
According to Gould, Dirty Pakistani Lingerie “addresses the inherent tension between the impulse to assimilate and the desire to maintain one’s cultural identity, the tension between what we leave behind and what we take with us; between what we hold onto and what we fear we may have forgotten.”
Dirty Pakistani Lingerie will be performed at The Old Rep as part of their New Work Nights programme alongside works in development from West Midlands theatremakers, including NotNowCollective, Paven Virk and Denise Pitter. This evening of performance, on Wednesday 2nd March 7pm, has been produced to showcase excellent work by female writers and theatremakers in the lead up to International Women’s Day 2016.