Harwant S. Bains (born 1963) is a British playwright and screenwriter.[1][2]
Life
editHarwant Bains was brought up in a mostly Sikh community in Southall, West London.[1]
Works
edit- Stage plays
- The Fighting Kite. Theatre Royal Stratford East, November 1987.
- Blood. Royal Court Theatre. London: Methuen, 1989.[3]
- True Love Stories.
- Indian Summer. National Theatre, 1995. In Making Scenes: Short Plays for Young Actors 3, London: Methuen, 1995.[3]
- Screenplays
- Wild West. Dir. David Attwood, 1992.
- Two Oranges and a Mango. BBC, 1995.
- Radio plays
- Learning the Language
- Tutti Frutti Holy Man
- Grease Monkeys
- Other
- 'Southall Youth: An Old-Fashioned Story', in Harwant Bains and Philip Cohen, eds., Multi-Racist Britain. London: Macmillan, 1988.
References
edit- ^ a b Satinder Chohan (2002). "Bains, Harwant". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ Trevor R. Griffiths (2014). "Bains, Harwant". The Theatre Guide: A Comprehensive A-Z of the World's Best Plays and Playwrights. A&C Black. pp. 14–15. ISBN 9781408103135.
- ^ a b "Black Playwrights in Britain in Print" (PDF).
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