Join Director Kash Arshad and Designer Rachana Jadhav for the evening as they talk you through their exciting design plans for our upcoming production of East is East.

The event will include a facilitated Q&A with Kash and Rachana and an opportunity to feedback on the design process.

Director Kash Arshad said:
“East is East is my story. There are not many plays that speak to the experience of being brought up in a Muslim household, with a white British mother and a Pakistani father, who ran his own business, with kids who felt not British enough to be British nor Pakistani enough to be Pakistani. To get the opportunity to direct this play at the theatre where I started my directing journey and to be able to share it with audiences in Salisbury, Derby and the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, my local theatre in my late teens/early twenties and where I first set foot on a professional stage, is a dream

The play is a modern classic, with brilliantly observed, memorable characters. And at its heart a strong matriarch in Ella holding this family of misfits together - She reminds me so much of my own mum. It's raucous, moving, full of truth and really funny.”