It was a study in cultural conditioning and deeply ingrained attitudes. The play rises to a crescendo and culminates in bloody murder.īased on a real life criminal case concerning an Asian family in England, this was no mere docu-drama. He had his way with them in any way that he liked. Her bullying husband still had the mindset of a Jat peasant from the Punjab he believed that as the lord and master he owned, as it were, the woman he had married as well as his daughter. It centred round the intolerable life endured by a Sikh woman in England. I first saw an example of Ahmad`s dramatic prowess in 1991 when her powerful play Song for a Sanctuary was staged at London`s Lyric Theatre. Ahmad is tempered steel and her writing cuts cleanly like a Samurai`s sword. The Karachi-born writer Rukhsana Ahmad is definitely the opposite her manner is gentle, she is elegant and her voice is soft and winning. The media portrayed them as troublesome termagants badly in need of a scrub and a dab of makeup as well as a decent hair-do. Since suffragette days the image of women activists has been somewhat tarnished.
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