Close to Home - in More Ways Than One ; Terry Grimley Talks to Iqbal Khan About Returning to His Birmingham Roots to Direct the Comedy East Is East

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Iqbal Khan grew up in Small Heath in the early 1980s rather than Salford in the early 1970s, but he can recognise much of his own background in Ayub Khan Din's classic comedy East is East.

First staged in Birmingham Rep's studio theatre in 1996, in a three-way co-production with Tamasha Theatre Company and the Royal Court, East is East went on to reach a far wider audience as a Bafta- winning film featuring many of the original cast.

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Close to Home - in More Ways Than One ; Terry Grimley Talks to Iqbal Khan About Returning to His Birmingham Roots to Direct the Comedy East Is East

Now it has come full circle to the Rep - but on the main stage this time - and Iqbal, who directed the tour of the National Theatre's comedy hit Rafta Rafta, is directing it.

"I'm pretty sure it's the first time it's been done on such a large stage," he says. "It's a very intimate, domesti...

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