Harwant Bains

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. 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. "Black Playwrights in Britain in Print" (PDF).

External links

• Harwant Bains at IMDb