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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Favour review – a moving addiction drama with occasional lapses

(from left) Renu Brindle, Ashna Rabheru and Avita Jay  in Favour at Bush theatre, London.
Convincingly charismatic … (from left) Renu Brindle, Ashna Rabheru and Avita Jay in Favour at Bush theatre, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

This lean multi-generational family drama explores ways of mothering, and the emotional punch, when it comes, is well worth the wait even if there are a few bumps along the way.

Three generations of British Asian women make up the working-class family in Ambreen Razia’s play: a prodigal daughter, of sorts, in Aleena (Avita Jay), who returns home after a two-year stint behind bars to her doting daughter, Leila (Ashna Rabheru), and a quietly judgmental mother, Noor (Renu Brindle).

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