Guleraana Mir – författare

For as long as there is barsaat, you will be my friend. Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them.As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading social unrest and violence. They’re too busy stealing books, swimming in the lake and spying on Rahul (the local hottie). When Naz is betrothed to a tailor from the soon-to-be capital of Pakistan the threat of separation for the youngwomen looms on the horizon. Bound by their love for each other we learn how far they will go to avoid the inevitable.Guleraana Mir and afshan d’souza-lodhi’s Santi & Naz explores female friendship, coming of age, and coming out set against the backdrop of a country soon to be changed forever.Recipient of the Fringe Society’s Keep It Fringe Fund and Winner of the Charlie Hartill Fund 2023.This edition was published to coincide with the Thelmas’ production at London’s Soho Theatre in January 2025.

Four inspirational tales of Essex resilience intertwine to make an unmissable world premiere by the region’s most exciting playwrights.The Essex Princess by Anne OdekeIt’s 1908 and Joanna’s planning to provoke the attention of Southend and the whole of the nation, by becoming the first black woman to compete in a beauty pageant.Fiza by Guleraana MirFiza’s moved home with her parents. Under dire circumstances… At nearly 40. Will she pick herself up in time for the dreaded school reunion?Never Never Land by Kenny EmsonTag’s out with the lads in 1998 – it’s his last night as a proper Essex boy. But there are last nights, and there are last nights.Everybody Gets Born by Sadie HaslerDaisy’s having a baby.Yep, right now.Actually having a baby.The drugs kick in, the room goes fuzzy, and Daisy finds herself back in 1978… in her mum’s glam band.