Notes on Falling Leaves
Published on 8. July 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-85459-804-2 (ISBN)
Description
A poignant, elegiac short play from the author of East is East.
As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own foggy memories and feelings about why they try to communicate, but just can't.
Ayub Khan Din's play Notes on Falling Leaves was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, in February 2004.
As his mother fades away, a son returns to the house where he grew up. It is empty, but full of reminders of how she once was. She, meanwhile, has her own foggy memories and feelings about why they try to communicate, but just can't.
Ayub Khan Din's play Notes on Falling Leaves was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, in February 2004.
Reviews / Votes
'Wonderful, Beckettian evocation of a mind struggling to comprehend the loss of its own faculties and the running down of the self' * Evening Standard * 'Ayub Khan Din's deeply moving new play lasts only 50 minutes, but it conjures up a world of loss, love and grief. At times the writing is as spare as Samuel Beckett's, but there is also a warmth, and a vivid eye for detail, that make the piece overwhelming in its emotional impact' * Daily Telegraph *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
55 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-804-2 (9781854598042)
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Ayub Khan Din's play East is East (1996) was originally staged at the Royal Court Theatre and adapted into a feature film. The play and film have won a Writers' Guild Award for Best New Writer and a British Academy Award. Other plays include Last Dance at Dum Dum (1999), Notes on Falling Leaves (2004) and Rafta, Rafta... (2007), which won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. A film adaptation, All in Good Time, was released in 2012, a year after his sequel to East is East, named West is West. His most recent plays have been All the Way Home, directed by Mark Babych at the Lowry Theatre in Salford, musical comedy Bunty Berman Presents, produced on Broadway by The New Group, and an adaptation of E.R. Braithwaite's To Sir, With Love.