Nirjay Mahindru talks to theatre director Iqbal Khan about his life growing up in Birmingham, the influence of his mother and brothers, depression and feeling out of kilter with those around us, plus the state of British theatre today.
Iqbal began his directing career at the Leicester Haymarket and National Theatre Studio.
His credits include: A Christmas Carol (Box Clever); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Snookered(Tamasha/Oldham Coliseum/Bush/UK tour): The Importance of Being Earnest: The Musical (Riverside Studios); The Killing of Sister George (West End); Broken Glass (Tricycle/West End); Rafta Rafta (Bolton Octagon/New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme); East is East (Birmingham Rep); A Slight Ache, Landscape (National Theatre); Treemonisha (Pegasus Opera); The Last Photograph (Edinburgh Festival); Otello (Associate Director. Birmingham Opera Company); Time for the Good Looking Boy (Box Clever/UK tour); Oleanna (Bolton Octagon);Richard III (RWCMD); Simply Cinderella (Associate Director. Curve); 16up (Union Theatre/tour); Too Close to Home (Lyric Hammersmith/Library Theatre); Madama Butterfly (Lyric Hammersmith/Minack); Beautiful Thing (Oldham Coliseum).
His other work has been seen at the Union Chapel; Bloomsbury Theatre, the Edinburgh Fringe, the Bridewell, the Old Red Lion and in Japan.