Theatre, Radio and Screen Writing Credits
THEATRE
HOMING BIRDS 2019 (Kali Theatre Company)
LETTING GO 2008 (Pursued by a Bear)
MISTAKEN - Annie Besant in India 2007/2008 (Vayu Naidu Company)
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PARTNERS IN CRIME 2004 (LIFT)
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE GOD: 2002 (Derby Playhouse commission)
RIVER ON FIRE 2000-2001 (Kali Theatre Company)
‘A true ensemble piece… every cast member works impressively through the gamut of emotions generated as their comfortable world disintegrates… Rukhsana Ahmad’s play interweaves these levels with sensitivity and neatly sidesteps any weightiness by making her issues the sole vehicles for the plot and bases for characterization.’
Nick Awde, The Stage, Nov 16th 2000.
‘River on Fire is ripe with tensions and once it is fired up it crackles
with them.’ Mark Espiner, Time Out, Nov 8-15 2000.
‘River on Fire is full of passion and dignity. While the debates
about belief and faith are clear and compelling, the play also
bravely grapples with big spiritual ideas…’
Aleks Sierz, Tribune 24th Nov 2000.
‘This production represents a typically high-paced, provocative
and absorbing piece of drama.’
Wayne Clews, Metro Mar 12th 2001
BLACK SHALWAR
(adapted from S. H. Manto’s story) 1999 (Kali Theatre Company)
Part of the double bill: Love Comes in at the Window ‘As unexpected in its delights as those suggested by the title, Rukhsana Ahmad has every reason to be proud of this double–bill by Kali … (both) plays are enchantingly professional as well as thought-provoking.’ Carole Woddis, The Herald Mar 10th 1999
THE GATEKEEPER’S WIFE (based on her own short story) 1994 (Alarmist Theatre)
‘What did surprise was the beauty and grace with which that message was conveyed in Alarmist’s
new production… a successful fusion of literary adaptation and western theatre style with traditional
Pakistani culture that is bewitchingly uplifting.’ Maggie Clune in Evening Argus Sept 16th 1994
SONG FOR A SANCTUARY 1990 (Kali Theatre Company)
‘Too many issue-centred dramas lack the complex ring of truth,
but this is an absorbing exception.’ Antonia Denford, City Limits
‘Rukhsana Ahmad’s play …is an intelligent absorbing study of an
Asian woman trapped by tradition.’
The Independent Oct 15 1991
BBC RADIO 4 AND WORLD SERVICE
THE FAR PAVILIONS adaptation of M. M. Kaye’s novel 2011
THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS adaptation of Kiran Desai’s novel 2009
Click here for BBC, WORLD SERVICE (PYAAR KA PASSPORT) link
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel 2006/7
MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS adaptation of Nadeem Aslam's novel 2005/6
THE GUIDE adaptation of R. K. Narayan’s novel 2004
THE BANKER’S TALE based on Chaucer’s CANTERBURY TALES 2000
THE ERRANT GENE 1998
AN URNFUL OF ASHES 1995
SONG FOR A SANCTUARY 1993
WOMAN AT POINT ZERO adaptation of Nawaal el Saadawi’s novel
WESTWAY Member writing team for BBC World Service drama series 2003 and 2004
PYAR KA PASSPORT Lead writer, BBC World Service Trust and FM Pakistan radio drama series 2005/6
SCREENPLAYS
MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS based on Nadeem Aslam’s novel 2009
THE ERRANT GENE original screenplay 2002
CASSANDRA AND THE VIADUCT short film script (based on her short story) 1996
PODCASTS
TRIAL BY FIRE 2017 a true story for Historic Royal Palaces
Listen to Outliers in Podcasts. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/outliers/id1310165230?mt=2
