Details

Subject(s)

• Glasgow (Scotland)—Drama [Browse]

Series

Modern plays. [More in this series]

Summary note

When Gaby disappears from her Scottish home, it is assumed that her Pakistani father, Farhan, has kidnapped her. The spiralling headlines are only momentarily silenced when it emerges that Gaby may have fled of her own accord, choosing to spend her life in Pakistan. To the distress of her Scottish mother, Suzy, Gaby declares, 'My name is Ghazala', turning her back on 'Gaby' and, seemingly, the West. This moving verbatim play reveals a cross-cultural love story that began in late-seventies Glasgow, a world away from the frantic 'tug of love' well documented in the world's press.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2014.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 7, 2017).

Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Contents
• Theatre's Programme Pages
• Cast
• My Name is . . .
• Characters
• First meeting and falling in love
• Leaving home
• Leap-year proposal
• Conversion and Nikaah
• Leaving
• Change
• Taking on Islam and the pedestal
• Remembering happy times
• Purdah and the niqab
• Moving again
• 'You can't be right, you're white'
• The pilgrimage. Hajj
• Breakdown
• Giving up the children
• Farhan becoming carer
• Geting the kids back
• Children leave one by one
• Ghazala alone and flight
• Running away or kidnap?
• Farhan gets up
• Glossary (in order of appearance)
• eCopyright.

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OCLC

• 1024285280
• 1150169095
• 985992815

Doi

• 10.5040/9781472588364.00000007

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