![]() ![]() Given the play’s focus on educating its audience and exposing lesser publicised experiences, I would have expected it to be less melodramatic at times. ![]() There was one particular moment surrounding a character having a cesarian without anaesthetic, a situation Hosseini based on a story he was told by a physical in Kabul, which drove home the trauma women living in Afghanistan have gone through and still endure. The play’s drive was to educate its audience on the suffering women have endured and still endure today in Afghanistan. Seeing Mariam (Amina Zia) and Aziza (Shala Nyx) so excited at the prospect of education left me reflecting on my own time at school studying Hosseini, and how readily education is taken for granted by those for whom the prospect of no education at all has never entered their lives. ![]() The focus on literature and education throughout the text mapped on to my own experience of the text, as Khaled Hosseini holds strong associations for me with A level English. In this play, adapted from Khaled Hosseini’s award-winning novel which goes by the same name, follows the relationship between two women living in Afghanistan in the 60s - early 2000s. ![]()
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