Kali Theatre presents its new production, Sock 'em with Honey, under the direction of Kali's new artistic director, Janet Steel. Based on Bapsi Sidhwa's book 'The American Brat', 'Sock 'em with Honey'is a bittersweet comedy about love, loyalty and the need to belong.

Feroza is blissfully happy. She's in love and wants to marry her Jewish boyfriend, David. But, her family is not so ecstatic. They want her to follow tradition and settle down with a nice Parsee (Zoroastrian) boy. So, spurred on by the family grandmother, a forceful matriarch, Feroza's mother is despatched to London from Karachi to win over her daughter with sweet words. Here, she is torn between love for her daughter and her duty to family and faith. But her attempts to spoil Feroza's relationship with David backfire, when he is provoked into reasserting his own cultural roots.

Bapsi Sidhwa is a distinguished writer from Pakistan now based in America. Her novel, Cracking India (called Ice-Candy-Man in England) was turned into the celebrated film, Earth, directed by Deepa Mehta. Her novels, An American Brat, The Crow Eaters and The Bride have been translated into several languages. She is also the author of short stories and essays. Sock 'em with Honey is her first play.

Kali is a distinctive new perspective in theatre that develops and presents plays by Asian women. It has a growing reputation for memorable theatre experiences based on innovative and challenging work and last year presented Singh Tangos on tour before a successful run at the Riverside Studios. Sock 'em with Honey is being created with the help Leicester Haymarket Theatre, where it opens in the Studio (20th -29th March (no perf 24th March) before its London run.

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