The stock da'wa
By: David Eldridge
Contributors: Eldridge, David, 1973-
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: Paul has just returned with a bag and a bloodied nose to his hometown of Stock after an absence of seventeen years. As a boy he was practically adopted by Joan after becoming friends with her son Oliver. She lives with Mr Wilson, a gay retired English teacher who taught the boys when they were young. Paul is now married, and converted to Islam. As the secrets of the past are exhumed, the reunion atmosphere is strained enough without there being something distinctly odd about the bag Paul is carrying. 'The Stock Da'wa' was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2011.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 2012.