Favour

"I'm going to answer all your wishes, bubba! Big or small, it'll be me who makes them come true, no one else"

Leila is happy living at home with Noor, her loving but traditional grandmother

But when Aleena, her fiercely independent mother, returns home from prison determined to deliver a new world of fun and excitement, their calm lives are upended in a blur of nail varnish and sweet treats

Family secrets come tumbling into the light, and Leila finds the task of deciding on her future more difficult than she first thought

Ambreen Razia's play Favour is a touching and hopeful family drama about a working-class Muslim family, tackling duty, addiction and the challenge of pulling yourself back together after it all falls apart

It was a Bush Theatre and Clean Break co-production and premiered at the Bush, London, in 2022, directed by Róisín McBrinn and Sophie Dillon Moniram