theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Ayub Khan Din
It's been quite a journey for Ayub Khan Din. Born in 1961, the acclaimed playwright grew up in a crowded Salford household, the youngest child of a Pakistani father and a white English mother. The cultural clashes he witnessed - as his Anglicised older siblings fought against the straitjacket of Muslim tradition " were the raw material for East Is East. His admired and important play, first performed in 1996 and soon…