# The Funeral Director

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- Authors: [Iman Qureshi](https://www.bookquiver.com/iman-qureshi)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2018-11-01
- Genres: Plays, playscripts, drama, Fiction: literary and general non-genre

## Description

‘I just thought it would be a secret I’d have to die with. And now – I think it’ll be what kills me.’Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour isn’t always easy, but Ayesha has things pretty sorted. She and Zeyd share everything: a marriage, a business, a future. Until Tom walks in to organise his boyfriend’s funeral. A snap moral decision, informed by the values of Ayesha’s community and faith, has profound consequences. Forced to confront a secret she has hidden even from herself, Ayesha must decide who she is – no matter the cost. Iman Qureshi's play The Funeral Director is an incisive and heartfelt story of sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. It won the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize and premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2018.

## Editions

### The Funeral Director

- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- ISBN: 978-18-4842-796-9
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2018-11-01
- Language: en_US