Anita and Me review " Meera Syal's culture-clash comedy touches familiar nerves
Birmingham Rep theatreTanika Gupta's lively adaptation, with music by Ben and Max Ringham, retains the novel's resonance and zestMeera Syal is, in some ways, the victim of her own success. Her 1997 autobiographical first novel sold in vast numbers, became a GCSE set text and was made into a movie. Now Tanika Gupta has adapted it for the stage, and, while it makes a lively night out, its story of the cultural conflict…