The title? It’s a sandwich filling. In Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s first full-length play, boy woos girl with his signature sarnie: a blend of sweet and crunchy that suits this arrestingly unexpected romance.
They meet at uni in London. Hafsah from Bradford does gender studies and Bilal from Brum struggles with South Asia studies (“Bane of my bleeding life”). They clock each other at a seminar: she scoffs that “he’s one of those Bilals that’s let white people call him Billy”, while he notes she “talks a mile a minute when it comes to colonialism”. Soon he finds excuses to chat: catching feelings in the library, diving into his reading list (“1980s Pakistan was on a mad one”).
