‘I was pathetic, tonight in the pub with the lads. We sat drinking, telling jokes […] Paki jokes. And the the biggest joke was me, ’cause I was laughing the hardest.’

I was completely blindsided by this play. I had always avoided the film, assuming it was a mean-spirited mockery of the Muslim/Pakistani working class, made more for the benefit of white British audiences than for us. The original play, however, is much more nuanced, with so much to unpack about the painful mess of being mixed race, that I will be thinking about this for a long time to come.