Selling Kabul
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Written by
Sylvia Khoury
Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
New York premiere
Produced in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival
AFIYA
My stupid brother. If you step outside that door, You murder your child. You murder your wife. You murder my husband. You murder me.
Taroon once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Now it is 2013, and the Americans — and their promises of safety — have begun to withdraw. Taroon spends his days in hiding, a target of the increasingly powerful Taliban. On the eve of his son’s birth, he must remain in his sister’s apartment, or risk his life to see his child. With shattering precision, Sylvia Khoury’s tense drama traces the human cost of U.S. immigration policy and the legacy of our longest war.
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“Sylvia Khoury pulls nifty narrative and stylistic jumps out of her hat, and it works.”
— The New York Times