Based on the friendship between Barack Obama and his Pakistani room-mate in the 1980s, this is a new play by Rashid Razaq who, in collaboration with Tom Attenborough, has produced a thoughtful and provocative piece about a turning point in the relationship. The fictional couple share a shabby flat in the Lower East Side of New York, exposed to the drugs, crimes and shootings that were commonplace in the are ...

Two men meet at a house party in drug-ridden Harlem. One is an illegal immigrant, the other is the future president of the United States. The President and The Pakistani is a new play based on the story of this little-known friendship between Baraq Obama and room-mate Sohale Siddiqi, and whilst the play is fictional, the real story is no less strange, as I discovered in conversation with author Rashid Razaq ...