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Burkas and Bacon Butties

A heart-warming, clash-of-cultures comedy set in a Wigan taxi.

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
A heart-warming, clash-of-cultures comedy set in a Wigan taxi.

The play follows taxi-driver Ashraf and his twenty-something daughter, Shaz, over the course of a year as they negotiate the ups and downs of living in a mixed-culture family.

Burkas and Bacon Butties by Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley was first performed as part of the 2018 VAULT Festival, London.

Available in the collection Plays from VAULT 3.

Premiere Production: VAULT Festival, London, 2018.
  • Casting: 3M, 3F