Harwant Bains Explained

Harwant S. Bains (born 1963) is a British playwright and screenwriter.^{[1] [2]}

Life

Harwant Bains was brought up in a mostly Sikh community in Southall, West London.^[1]

Works

Stage plays

• The Fighting Kite. Theatre Royal Stratford East, November 1987.
• Blood. Royal Court Theatre. London: Methuen, 1989.^[3]
• True Love Stories.
• Indian Summer. National Theatre, 1995. In Making Scenes: Short Plays for Young Actors 3, London: Methuen, 1995.^[3]

Screenplays

• Wild West. Dir. David Attwood, 1992.
• Two Oranges and a Mango. BBC, 1995.

Radio plays

• Learning the Language
• Tutti Frutti Holy Man
• Grease Monkeys

Other

• 'Southall Youth: An Old-Fashioned Story', in Harwant Bains and Philip Cohen, eds., Multi-Racist Britain. London: Macmillan, 1988.

Notes and References

1. Book: Satinder Chohan . Bains, Harwant . Alison Donnell . Alison Donnell . Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture . 2002 . Routledge . 978-1-134-70025-7 . 25.
2. Book: Trevor R. Griffiths . Trevor Griffiths . Bains, Harwant . The Theatre Guide: A Comprehensive A-Z of the World's Best Plays and Playwrights . A&C Black . 2014 . 14–15 . 9781408103135 . https://books.google.com/books?id=AUDLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 .
3. Web site: Black Playwrights in Britain in Print.