{"id":1611,"date":"2014-10-17T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/?page_id=1611"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:58:26","slug":"east-is-east-by-ayub-khan-din-trafalgar-studios-west-end-october-2014-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/?page_id=1611","title":{"rendered":"East is East by Ayub Khan Din, Trafalgar Studios, West End October 2014 &#8211; January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pakistani chip-shop owner George Khan &#8211; &#8216;Genghis&#8217; to his kids &#8211; is determined to give his children a strict Muslim upbringing against the unforgiving backdrop of 1970s Salford. Household tension reaches breaking point as their long-suffering English mother, Ella, gets caught in the cross fire &#8211; her loyalties divided between her marriage and the free will of her children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Starring multi award-winning stage and screen star\u00a0<strong>Jane Horrocks<\/strong>\u00a0as Ella and East is East playwright<strong>\u00a0Ayub Khan Din<\/strong>\u00a0in this modern comedy classic about growing up in multiracial England<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4**** Guardian | 4**** Daily Telegraph | 4**** The Independent | 4**** The Times | 4**** Time Out | 4**** Mail On Sunday | 4**** What&#8217;s On Stage | 4**** Financial Times | 4**** London Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 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class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1615'>\n\t\t\t\tEast is East \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-17-at-12.28.35.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-17-at-12.28.35-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1613\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1613'>\n\t\t\t\tEast is East \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-17-at-12.29.35.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-17-at-12.29.35-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-17-at-12.29.49.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-17-at-12.29.49-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/samyatesdirector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-17-at-12.31.31.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"color: #444444; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Production photographer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/marcbrenner\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marc Brenner<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: center;\"><strong>Writer<\/strong>\u00a0Ayub Khan-Din<br \/>\n<strong>Director<\/strong>\u00a0Sam Yates<br \/>\n<strong>Designer<\/strong>\u00a0Tom Scutt<br \/>\n<strong>Composer &amp; Sound<\/strong>\u00a0Alex Baranowski<br \/>\n<strong>Lighting<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Designer<\/strong>\u00a0Rich Howell<br \/>\n<strong>Associate Director<\/strong> Kimberley Sykes<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: center;\"><strong>Movement Director<\/strong>\u00a0Georgina Lamb<br \/>\n<strong>Fight Director<\/strong>\u00a0Kate Waters<br \/>\n<strong>Dialect Coach<\/strong>\u00a0Edda Sharpe<br \/>\n<strong>Casting Director\u00a0<\/strong>Stuart Burt CDG<br \/>\n<strong>Company Stage Manager<\/strong>\u00a0Emma Banwell-Knight<br \/>\n<strong>Deputy Stage Manager<\/strong>\u00a0Ruth Taylor<br \/>\n<strong>Assistant Stage Manager<\/strong>\u00a0Abbie Proctor and Melissa Peet<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #000000;\">Reviews<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2014\/oct\/16\/east-is-east-review-ayub-khan-din-stage\">4**** THE GUARDIAN | Lyn Gardner<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;Director Sam Yates announces himself as a major talent in a revival, played out on Tom Scutt\u2019s clever, deceptively flexible design&#8230;\u00a0The payoff is a show that delivers the laughs even as it hurts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"East is East The Times Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/?page_id=1635\">4**** THE TIMES | Sam Marlowe<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;Thrillingly vital. A play with guts, wit and a big, beating heart&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/theatre\/theatre-reviews\/11167351\/East-is-East-Trafalgar-Studios-review-an-intriguing-commentary.html\">4**** THE DAILY TELEGRAPH |\u00a0Jane Shilling<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;Sally Bankes\u2019s high-energy performance as the gossipy Catholic neighbour, Auntie Annie, lights up the stage, and the final scene, a disastrous betrothal tea-party, is a comic gem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/theatre-dance\/reviews\/east-is-east-trafalgar-studios-review-jane-horrocks-is-terrific-in-khan-dins-comedy-9799544.html\">4**** THE INDEPENDENT | Paul Taylor<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;It brings Jane Horrocks back to stage in a terrific, gutsy-yet-sensitive portrayal of Ella&#8230; Ayub Khan Din&#8217;s performance skilfully manages to bring out what is tragicomically impossible about this interfering, overbearing figure&#8230; a crack cast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/08fbcdb2-552c-11e4-b616-00144feab7de.html#axzz3GUhGx4Ry\">4**** FINANCIAL TIMES | Sarah Hemming<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jane Horrocks, brusque, tough, tender, cigarette permanently in hand, is beautifully observed as the mother torn between her husband and her children&#8230;\u00a0Sam Yates\u2019 crisp, funny revival&#8230;is period, yet resonates powerfully today.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"East is East Mail on Sunday review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samyatesdirector.com\/?page_id=1694\">4**** THE MAIL ON SUNDAY | Georgina Brown<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;The scene when the girls\u2019 parents come to tea, a wonderfully witty nod to Shaw\u2019s Pygmalion, is the comic highlight of Sam Yates\u2019s revival. A belter, as Ella would have said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/east-is-east\">4**** TIME OUT |\u00a0Rachel Halliburton<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;Sam Yates directs the action with pace and flair, as we gaze down on Tom Scutt\u2019s cosily claustrophobic set, comprised of a red brick backdrop, nine battered black wooden doors, and a couple of sofas that look ready for retirement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonstage.com\/london-theatre\/reviews\/east-is-east-jane-horrocks_36149.html?cid=homepage_news\">4**** WHAT&#8217;S ON STAGE |\u00a0Michael Coveney<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;The marvel of Sam Yates&#8217;s superbly cast revival &#8211; with the author himself playing the Muslim paterfamilias &#8211; is that it still works as a cunningly engineered drama of assimilation and resentments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londontheatre.co.uk\/londontheatre\/reviews\/eastiseast14.htm\">4**** LONDON THEATRE | Mark Shenton<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;Sam Yates and his designer Tom Scutt bring a period realism to the setting, but the play strikes a universal resonance for any time and any family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/1413830767\/theatre-review-east-east-trafalgar-studios\">4**** CITY A.M. | Steve Dinneen<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"color: #404041;\">Jane Horrocks shines as the long-suffering, chain-smoking mother who attempts to juggle her husband\u2019s demands with her children\u2019s expectation of certain western freedoms.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Spectator Review, East is East\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/arts\/theatre\/9348602\/is-london-jewish-enough-for-david-baddiels-musical-the-infidel\/\">THE SPECTATOR |\u00a0Lloyd Evans<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0&#8220;This play is one of the gems of the theatrical repertoire, and Sam Yates&#8217;s production is pretty near flawless.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2787179\/oscar-nominated-french-actress-lea-seydoux-cast-new-bond-girl.html\">DAILY MAIL | Baz Bamigboye<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8220;Director Sam Yates draws out the humour and there are some great belly laughs, but I was also struck by a powerful moment when Khan-Din\u2019s George hits Horrocks\u2019s Ella.The difference in size makes the assault all the more shocking, and adds a dynamic I hadn\u2019t considered when I saw the play at the Royal Court&#8230;\u00a0a crowd-pleaser that makes you think. 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