Harwant Bains

British playwright and screenwriter

Harwant S. Bains (born 1963) is a British playwright and screenwriter.[1][2]

Life

Harwant Bains was brought up in a mostly Sikh community in Southall, West London.[1]

Works

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b "Black Playwrights in Britain in Print" (PDF).
  • Harwant Bains at IMDb
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