Voices of women from Afghanistan : five plays and the stories that inspired them / edited by Lesley Ferris, with Jenny Morgan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferris, Lesley, editor.

Morgan, Jenny (Filmmaker), editor.

Series:

Methuen Drama play collections

Methuen drama play collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Afghanistan.

English drama.

English drama--Women authors.

English drama--21st century.

Women authors, Afghan.

Women, Afghan--Drama.

Women, Afghan.

Sex discrimination against women--Afghanistan--Drama.

Sex discrimination against women.

Afghanistan--Drama.

Afghanistan.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

120 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

"Five female playwrights offer short but intense experiences of the lives of Afghan girls and women in the brief, perilous years before the Taliban retook Kabul. The five plays, and the journalism they're based on are illuminating, wry, surprising, heart-rending. They open our eyes to what Afghan women wrestled with in the two decades between periods of Taliban rule, and remind us what is being lost every day that women in Afghanistan are silenced"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Dancing to the Blast

Dust Allergy

Behind the Blast Wall

The Place of Shining Light

Parwana: They Bear All the Pain

Dancing to the blast. 'Afghan women long for their campus life a year after Taliban attack'

Dancing to the blast / Monirah Hashemi

Reflections from playwright Monirah Hashemi

Dust allergy. 'Afghan students who studied abroad are hit with reverse culture shock'

Dust allergy / Nushin Arbabzadah

A theatre of tricksters: the story of the Afghan comedy 'Dust allergy'

Behind the blast wall. 'Kabul in 1979 and 2016: a mother and daughter reflect on change'

Behind the blast wall / Sonali Bhattacharyya

Interview with Sonali Bhattacharyya about her play

The place of shining light. 'I dressed like a boy so i could go to school'

The place of shining light / Yasmin Joseph

Interview with Yasmin Joseph about her play

Parwana: they bear all the pain. '"I couldn't even scream": survival and abuse inseparable for Kabul children'

Parwana: they bear all the pain / Alia Bano

Reflection on her play by Alia Bano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Hashemi, Monirah Dancing to the blast http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/c0eb8138-e866-0444-d8b9-608e884facc6.

Arbabzadah, Nushin Dust allergy http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/10b4a1a6-4cb6-6fc1-88a8-c89d8be3d3c0.

Bhattacharyya, Sonali Behind the blast wall http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/d290dc59-d411-bf83-7e8a-d258bf309f7c.

Joseph, Yasmin Place of shining light http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/990b9e7b-633e-07d3-c7ae-acb6770734e4.

Bano, Alia Parwana http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/4e56f52a-2a07-21bb-c9e4-e9182e9eda8b.

ISBN:

9781350547360

1350547360

9781350547353

1350547352

OCLC:

1536366769