Ankita Singh: Aotearoa's kickboxing anime-loving playwright

Nightclubs doubling as fight clubs, dairies with rice bunkers and aunties scheming away in mahjong dens.The first Aotearoa play to be commissioned from a South Asian woman provides a rather different sci-fi take on our future than we're used to. Yet beneath the stage combat, dance-offs and references to anime, Ankita Singh's 'neo-noir action-crime-comedy' Basmati Bitch aims to be a sharp look at contested borders and migrant exploitation Singh is an Auckland-based writer hailing from Chandigarh and Kirikiriroa. She's the founder of Asian theatre producers Oriental Maidens, and has an animated series in development with Taika Waititi's Piki Films. Basmati Bitch is on at Auckland's Q Theatre from 11 July.