What Fatima Did...
From: Thursday, 22nd October 2009
To: Saturday, 7 November 2009
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Synopsis
It’s the first day back at school after the summer holidays and everyone’s looking forward to catching up. Ears will have been pierced, hair will have been cut and new shoes bought. But will anyone be prepared for the change in Fatima’s appearance when she arrives at school? Suddenly it seems she is not the Fatima they thought they knew. Powerful, funny and provocative new drama about how the actions of one young woman threaten to destabilise the community around her. How much freedom do we have in shaping our own identities and how much are they shaped for us?
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 28 October 2009
From the moment one of the black sixth formers, reporting on his uncle’s “new citizen” and allegiance test, opines that the Poles are the new gypsies, you know you are in for a feisty new play on racial attitudes.
What Fatima did was come back from the school holidays wearing a hijab, or Muslim head scarf, but why has she done this? And what will she say to her oh-so white boyfriend George?
Sure enough, there are references to the BNP, Jack Straw’s tactful remarks on his young Muslim constituents and the less tactful ruling in French schools. But the small miracle of twenty-year-old Atiha Sen Gupta’s debut on the Hampstead stage is that it keeps you guessing. And the slight tease in the play can be gauged from the fact that the actress playing Fatima lists her previous roles in the programme as Abigail in Abigail’s Party and Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls.
The speculation among her peers, her twin brother...
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Atiha Sen Gupta (Author)
Hampstead Theatre (Producer)
Kelly Wilkinson (Director)
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