Chatterbox

One minute she was “stupid” for not speaking English – then she was chastised as a “chatterbox” for speaking it too much. 

In the second instalment of a planned trilogy on life growing up as a first-generation immigrant from Pakistan living in 1970s Glasgow, actress, comedian and writer Lubna Kerr looks back to her primary school days. 

Fresh off the plane, after her Dad was given a PhD place studying chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, she was dressed up in a uniform and sent off to school. 

Bizarrely Lubna was damned for not already speaking the language – though she didn’t think any the less of other people for not knowing Urdu. 

But it was a problem she swiftly overcame. Only to find this attracted fresh criticism. 

And so it went on. 

Chatterbox is a humorous and touching semi-autobiographical one-woman show looking at the impact of the labels we are given as children, and how they persist into adulthood.  

This is a piece as timely as it is charming – Broadway Baby ★★★★

Edinburgh Fringe ★★★★

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