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20 Questions: East is East's Ayub Khan-Din – 'Never ever read your own reviews'
1. Where and when were you born?
Born, Hope Hospital Salford. July 1961.
2. What made you want to become an actor/writer?
My brothers and sisters were all hairdressers. On leaving school with no qualifications my parents insisted I work with them. It was awful, and I soon left. But one day another junior was reading David Niven's The Moon’s a Balloon and I thought if he can go from being in the army to becoming an actor, then so can I.
3. If you hadn’t become an actor/writer, what might you have done professionally?
I now think I’d like to have become a dry stone waller/mason.
4. First big break?
The film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, directed by Stephen Freers.
5. First big break in theatre?
East is East as a playwright.
6. Career highlights to date?
East is East and my shows being staged by the New Group on Broadway.
7. Any regrets?
No, nothing….Maybe a tryst with a beautiful Swedish woman when I was 21 and she was 40! But I chickened out. She’d seen me in a show… So she may well have been a nutter!
8. What was the first thing you saw on stage that had a big impact on you?
The Technicians by Olwen Wymark. I luckily got to meet
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Editor's Picks
Salford-born Ayub Khan Din’s semi-autobiographical comedy-drama East Is East has proved enormously popular since it was written and first performed in the mid-90s, not least on account of the Film Four hit, first released in 1999. In fact, it is often cited as one of the key works in helping to bring Asian culture to mainstream British audiences.
Back then there may have been nearly as much unthinking racism as in the Salford of the 70s it depicts. But this new production, starring Khan Din himself and Rawtenstall-born Jane Horrocks, arrives at Manchester Opera House in a rather different context to those days.
Unfortunately, Muslim families and especially young Muslim boys and men, are regarded with suspicion after 9/11 and 7/7, not to mention wall-to-wall news reporting of alleged Jihadist plots on every media imaginable. This is also a time when wars, whether declared or not, rage between East and West, or their surrogates not far from the Pakistan/India border, the area that so preoccupies Pakistani patriarch George Khan in the drama. Meanwhile, the question of Muslim parents not knowing, or being able to control, what their offspring do is rarely off the news agenda.
“I think the play has got more relevance today than when it was first written,” Hor