Significant Other

Significant Other follows the parallel journeys of Malika, a teen social media influencer, and Victor, a travelling salesman in his fifties.

Malika is being stalked by an obsessive ex, though she is reluctant to face up to it. Victor has been carrying around a dummy for far too long, in place of his wife who left years ago.

A weekend of heading for the club is Malika’s answer to everything, whilst Victor day dreams of his long service award. But their weekend plans are about to be upended…

What will it take for each of them to live in the present and leave behind the dynamics of a past relationship?

Significant Other is a new intergenerational play about disconnection and confronting lost dreams, with touches of dark comedy and an unexpected denouement.

Shireen Shaikh is a lawyer and this is her debut play. She developed this script on a ‘write your first full-length play’ course at Theatre 503 in Battersea. She has just self-published her first novel, Falling.