It’s an engaging and funny tale set in a tight knit community about a young girl trying to decide her cultural identity and I look forward immensely to realising it on stage. Roxana Silbert added: "Meera’s brilliant novel is a wonderful coming of age story. top film and TV org describes its fellowships as the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an. The book is expertly structured and engagingly written, illuminated throughout by Meena’s ironical irreverance and robustness of. Syal said: "I am so thrilled that Anita and Me is being developed and premiered at the Birmingham Rep, in the West Midlands where I grew up, where the novel is set and whose people and stories had such a huge influence on my childhood." HONOR Actor and screenwriter Meera Syal has been honored with a BAFTA Fellowship. Syal is as skilful at rendering the saucy, ballsy backchat of the Tollington women as she is at describing Meena’s uncles and aunties, her parents’ Indian friends. It centres on nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in a Black Country mining village.Īccording to press material, "Syal’s novel is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change."Īnita and Me was recently added to the new English Literature GCSE syllabus. Wolverhampton-born Syal’s semi-autobiographical novel was first published in 1996 and was subsequently adapted for film. Meera Syal at the 2013 WhatsOnStage Awardsīirmingham Rep has announced that it will premiere the first stage adaptation of Meera Syal's debut novel Anita and Me.Īdapted for the stage by Tanika Gupta and directed by artistic director Roxana Silbert, the show opens in autumn 2015.
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