Burkas and Bacon Butties

A heart-warming, clash-of-cultures comedy set in a Wigan taxi.

The play follows taxi-driver Ashraf and his twenty-something daughter, Shaz, over the course of a year as they negotiate the ups and downs of living in a mixed-culture family.

Burkas and Bacon Butties by Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley was first performed as part of the 2018 VAULT Festival, London.

Burkas and Bacon Butties is also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 3.

Also available: a later version of the play, Habibti Driver, premiered at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, in April 2022.