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Soho Theatre and Traverse Theatre present

My English Persian Kitchen

Written by Hannah Khalil from a story by Atoosa Sepehr Mon 16 Sep – Sat 5 Oct 24 70 minutes
Quintessential
Guardian
Broadway Baby
What would you take if you had to leave home with no hope of returning? This life-affirming new play chronicles one-woman’s quest to build a new life around cooking and food.
‘Utterly sensational’
★★★★★ Quintessential Review

What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? This is the true story about one woman who loses everything.

Remembering the tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen with live cooking on stage, she recreates the dishes of her childhood and homeland, building a new life and community around food.

Written by award-winning Hannah Khalil from the story by Atoosa Sepehr, starring Isabella Nefar (Salome, National Theatre) this life-affirming new play chronicles one woman’s quest to start again.

‘A thoroughly flavourful feast of a play that transports its audiences, through its aromatic delights, into an Iranian kitchen’
★★★★ Guardian

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