Paper Thin

By Azma Dar

February - March 2006
Brentford | Croydon | London | Birmingham | Crawley

Mushtaq is anxious to remain in London to provide for his family back home, but his student visa is about to expire. He works two back-to-back jobs and saves enough to give money to his mother, Laila who runs a successful business arranging convenient marriages. But as her crafty schemes escalate, Mushtaq's hopes for a perfect life with a perfect wife are dashed by the reality of greed.

Paper Thin examines the intricacies of immigration and the extent to which one man is willing to go to achieve his goals.

Cast

Pushpinder Chani as Mushtaq
Shelley King as Laila
Alan Suri as Javed
Joan Walker as Deidre

Production

Director — Janet Steel
Designer — Matthew Wright
Lighting — Philip Gladwell
Composer — Sayan Kent
Stage Manager — Andy Beardmore

Alan Suri as Javed, Shelley King as Laila, Pushpinder Chani as Mushtaq and Joan Walker as Deidre

Pushpinder Chani as Mushtaq and Shelley King as Laila

Joan Walker as Deidre and Pushpinder Chani as Mushtaq

Pushpinder Chani as Mushtaq and Alan Suri as Javed

Pushpinder Chani as Mushtaq and Joan Walker as Deidre

[Azma Dar's] great sense of humour and natural empathy for her characters enables her to explore and expose an issue of importance to British Asian communities in a moving, frank and entertaining way.

— Christine van Emst,
The Argus

Paper thin

[Azma Dar's] great sense of humour and natural empathy for her characters enables her to explore and expose an issue of importance to British Asian communities in a moving, frank and entertaining way.

Deadeye

Chaos