Blood and Honour
T205124034
When it becomes clear that his granddaughter MIRIAM has flouted cultural expectation and the wishes of her Asian family (by running away to be with her English boyfriend), patriarch and revered businessman MANN controversially decides to employ the services of BAINS, a divorced, hard man, bounty hunter...with a difference. Despite a mutual dislike of each other and what they stand for, the two reluctantly agree for BAINS to bring MIRIAM back for a pre-arranged marriage. However, when faced with the prospect of cultural humiliation, MANN changes BAINS' brief - MIRIAM is NOT to be brought back, she must now disappear...for good. Reluctantly, BAINS initially agrees. But when he comes face-to-face with his intended pregnant ?victim', he is haunted by his personal demons and moral compass - and his employer now becomes the victim in a tense and dramatic conclusion. The cold, calculated conducting of the Honour Killing has increasingly been thrust into our consciousness in recent times. A concept so abhorrent and unacceptable to the Western psyche has now become a by-product of its multi-cultural communities. The West struggles to understand what allows people to condone the taking of the life of their own flesh and blood? Just what is this seemingly warped concept of honour that can justify such an action? And how do its perpetrators view the attitudes of the Western cultures in which they live?
Blood & Honour is a hard-hitting play which innovatively explores these complex questions and their underlying themes that are too easily presented in a simplistic manner.
Archive :: production:T205124034, play:S744680037, venue:V167
A Play for the Stage
Rehearsed Reading. Running time: approx. 1hr
