logo
welcome
Guardian

Guardian

‘If audiences are crying, I’ve done my job’: closing the stories of a generation of British south Asians

Guardian
Summary
Nutrition label

77% Informative

A Tupperware of Ashes is a play written by Tanika Gupta and Meera Syal .

It is the central character of a modern-day British Bengali matriarch who runs a Michelin -starred restaurant.

Syal and Gupta ’s mothers died after suffering from dementia.

They talk intimately about the resilience of their own mothers.

The play reflects a south Asian experience of dementia in some of the judgments that Queenie ’s children face among the community.

The play has sparks of humour and levity but does not steer away from dark territory.

There are glances at a care system that is dangerously over-stretched.