Approaching Empty - (Modern Plays) by Ishy Din (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Forget friendship! This is business.

In a scruffy minicab office, Mansha decides it's time to create his own destiny and offers to buy the business from his lifelong friend Raf. As the realities of the state of the company slowly come to light, these two best friends must confront the difficulties of going into business with those closest to them.

Set in the north of England, in the aftermath of Margaret Thatcher's death, this compelling drama by award-winning playwright Ishy Din lays bare the everyday struggles of a post-industrial generation of British men.

Review Quotes

"The most accomplished and assured first play I have seen for years" --Independent (on Snookered)

"Genuinely eye-opening" --Telegraph (on Snookered)

"Impressively sharp" --WhatsOnStage (on Snookered)

"Powerful and satisfying" --Scotsman (on Snookered)

About the Author

Ishy Din is a taxi-driver from Middlesborough, whose script John Barnes Saved My Life was shortlisted as part of Radio 5 Live's Sports Shorts competition and aired in 2004. He was then commissioned to write a piece for the BBC Brief Encounters series, has written for BBC Radio Newcastle, and came second in the British Asian writing competition BANG! in 2007 (Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Tamasha and BBC Writersroom, supported by Media Training North West). Ishy Din won Best New Play at the Manchester Theatre Awards for his play Snookered. He has recently completed Sustenance with Deborah Bruce for New Writing North, with support from the Arts Council and the Peggy Ramsey Foundation, and a short Arvon Foundation writing residency with tutors Simon Stephens and Graham Whybrow. He is currently working on an idea for a new musical called Soul Brother with the support of the Adopt a Playwright scheme (OffWestEnd.com), and is also developing a short film Hijab, and a screenplay entitled Fraud.