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Hampstead should be proud of their latest discovery, a 21-year-old lady who has been connected to Heat&Light, Hampstead's young company, since she was barely a teenager.

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Atiha Sen Gupta's fiery family drama challenges the 'family always comes first' ethos and boldly confronts the fissures in our modern.

We talk to State Red Writer Atiha Sen Gupta about her playwriting heroes, Roy Williams and humanising headlines.

Biography: Atiha Sen Gupta is a playwright and screenwriter.

This fiery family drama boldly confronts the fissures in our modern multicultural society that infiltrate through to the highest ranks.

It might well turn out that Atiha Sen Gupta's metier is television comedy but her first full-length play, following innovative Daring Pairings at the theatre with established playwrights Roy Williams and Tanika Gupta, has a lot going for it.

What Fatima Did ... combines elements of Simon Stephens' Punk Rock, Alia Bano's Shades and, at its most introspective, Oleanna by David Mamet.

The writer's main strengths lie in some laugh out loud comic lines and the ability to recreate the language used by teenagers today.

This means that some of the problems resulting from lack of experience seem far less worrying than might otherwise be the case.

The concept underlying What Fatima Did ... should speak to us all. It centres on Fatima, a normal 17-year-old in a multicultural school who is