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This is a topical play about society's war against terror and its consequences. Inspired by events such as the De Menezes shooting, when an innocent man was mistaken for a terrorist, it is suitable for schools, colleges and youth theatres. It features: Tony, a policeman, wishes he could turn the clock back; Jack who knows that what's done is done; Parvez, a young Asian man, who can't believe that Sara is back from beyond and this time she seems to have all the answers.

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"""This is gutsy writing; even the silent spaces in between words are emotionally raw."" Wasafiri Magazine ""[Her] poems...combine honesty...with precisely turned and unobtrusive language whose rhythms always have a sense of rightness."" World Literature Today ""She is a dangerous poet with a compassionate, unsentimental eye for truth."" Devon Campbell-Hall, Winchester College ""She is constantly sensual...tempered by a delicate care for detail, a quality of consideration that engages in the philosophical in sometimes complex ways... Her poems grow with her, spilling out on the streets, in her food, in her bed, and across the landscapes she inhabits..."" Kwame Dawes, (Forward Prize Winner) ""[Raman's poetry is] lavish and satisfying"" David Dabydeen"

This is gutsy writing; even the silent spaces in between words are emotionally raw. Wasafiri Magazine [Her] poems...combine honesty...with precisely turned and unobtrusive language whose rhythms always have a sense of rightness. World Literature Today She is a dangerous poet with a compassionate, unsentimental eye for truth. Devon Campbell-Hall, Winchester College She is constantly sensual...tempered by a delicate care for detail, a quality of consideration that engages in the philosophical in sometimes complex ways... Her poems grow with her, spilling out on the streets, in her food, in her bed, and across the landscapes she inhabits... Kwame Dawes, (Forward Prize Winner) [Raman's poetry is] lavish and satisfying David Dabydeen

Author Information

Raman Mundair is a writer and artist. She was born in Ludhiana, India and came to live in the UK at the age of five. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, A Choreographer's Cartography and Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves - both published by Peepal Tree Press. In 2007 she was awarded an Arts Council England International Fellowship at the India International Centre in Delhi. She was runner up in the Penguin Decibel Prize for Short Fiction in 2006. Her collection of short stories In the Light of Other will be published in 2008. As an artist she makes work that represents text and narrative in a visual form. Her work has been exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Leicester City Art Gallery and the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. In 2006 she collaborated with the National Theatre Scotland Young Company on Side Effects, a one act play. The Algebra of Freedom, was first performed by 7:84 Theatre Company and opened at The Arches in Glasgow in September 2007 and went on to tour nationally.

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