My Beautiful Laundrette Leeds

Further details and casting will be announced in due course.

My beautiful laundrette leeds. My Beautiful Launderette will be directed by Nikolai Foster and designed by Grace Smart with lighting by Ben Cracknell sound by Tom Marshall and casting by Kay Magson CDG. Search for Launderettes near you on Yell. Curve Belgrade Theatre Coventry Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Leeds Playhouse announce a new co-production of Hanif Kureshis My Beautiful Laundrette.

This place is so good. Tuesday 15th October 2019 at Leeds Playhouse. My Beautiful Laundrette.

My Beautiful Laundrette follows Omar a Pakistani lad as he rises to the challenge of turning his Uncle Nassers dilapidated laundrette into a going concern. Find My Beautiful Launderette in Leeds LS3. The audience took to their seats amongst bubbling sounds reminiscent of the opening of the 1985 film.

Set in London during the Thatcher years My Beautiful Laundrette tells the story of young British Pakistani Omar who transforms his Uncles run-down laundrette into a thriving business. My Beautiful Laundrette Hanif Kureishis 1985 Oscar-nominated film My Beautiful Laundrette will be adapted for the stage in a new co-production between Curve Leicester Belgrade Theatre Coventry Everyman Theatre Cheltenham and Leeds Playhouse. For those that dont know the plot My Beautiful Laundrette tells the story of young British Pakistani Omar Omar Malik who transforms his Uncles run-down launderette into a thriving business.

This bold new drama will be presented against a funky backdrop of 80s music composed by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of iconic British pop duo Pet Shop Boys exploring cultural conflict gender equality class and generational strife. When he encounters a gang of racists Omar recognises one of them as former school mate a white youth named Johnny. This was gradually complemented by the bovver boys of the cast stomping continue reading.

Set in the Pakistani community of London My Beautiful Laundrette follows the fortunes of handsome young Omar who together with his English friend Johnny takes over a run-down laundrette given to him by his rich uncle. The prejudice racial and sexual is evident but if one expects this very modern take on the Romeo and Juliet story to exculpate. Following performances in Leicester My Beautiful Laundrette will then tour to Everyman Theatre Cheltenham 8 12 Oct Leeds Playhouse 15 26 Oct Belgrade Theatre Coventry 29 Oct 2 Nov and Birmingham Repertory Theatre 5 9 Nov.