Under her predecessor, Lalitha Rajan, who founded the company in 2004 to present work by and for black and ethnic minority groups, Ankur had co-produced Roadkill, the Cora Bissett directed site-specific work about sex-trafficking that became one of the highest profile shows of recent years. Rather than attempt to rehash the idea, Aslam's debut production, Mwana, by first-time playwright Tawona Sithole, aims to fuse poetry and drama in a tale of the conflicting loyalties of a young Zimbabwean boy living and studying in Glasgow. The play's form is a world Aslam knows well.
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Giving poetry a sense of theatre
When Shabina Aslam took up her post as artistic director of Ankur Productions last summer, she knew she had a tough act to follow.
