[audiobook] Orlando Furioso (Italian Edition) by Lodovico Ariosto at Arts-Photography

Description

This collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ab Khan Din charts the development of a writer able to turn the tumultuous experience of life in modern Britain into satisfying; humane and often richly comic drama. Whether drawing on his own childhood; growing up in an Anglo-Pakistani family in Salford; or on E.R. Braithwaites account of racial tensions in the East End in To Sir; With Love; he depicts the struggles of individuals to come to terms with their conflicting cultural legacies- and he does so with unerring warmth and compassion. East is East (1996) is an irresistible comedy set in multiracial Salford in 1970; where the Khan children are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani fathers insistence on tradition; their English mothers laissez-faire and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world. The film adaptation that followed; with a screenplay by the author; became one of the most successful British films ever made. The version included here is the revised text first performed at the Trafalgar Studios in 2014. The short; elegiac play; Notes on Falling Leaves (2004); is an emotionally tender depiction of a young man as he loses his mother to dementia; overwhelming in its emotional impact (Telegraph). In All the Way Home (2011); a quarrelsome group of siblings gathers at the family home under the shadow of impending loss. Amidst the cut and thrust of spiky Salford banter; long-harboured resentments rise to the surface and family bonds unravel and unwind. To Sir; With Love (2013); based on E.R. Braithwaites autobiographical novel; is the uplifting story of a talented; idealistic young teacher discovering the reality of life as a black man in Britain after the Second World War as he struggles to find a way to connect with his students at a tough but progressive East End school.