After a successful West End outing in 2017 this wonderful production is setting out on a UK regional Playhouse tour bringing the touching story to wider audiences and I urge you to go and see it. Khaled Hosseini's best selling novel was published in 2003 and has been adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler and directed by Giles Croft. Set in Afghanistan and America it focus on the dominant male society in contrast with its follow up novel and play A thousand Splendid Suns which explores the country's female society.
At the heart of this story is the touching heartbreaking father and son story of Amir, with David Ahmed reprising his West End role with a powerful emotional intensity and his traditional formal wealthy father Baba played by Dean Rahman. The events are recalled by Amir as a refugee in California, through direct narration to the audience and has plenty of twists, turns and shocks that ramp up the emotional connection with his family. The family incidents also reflect the events in Afghanistan with declaration as a republic, first soviet invasion and occupation in the eighties, the emergence of the Taliban in the nineties and the U.S./British in the decade that followed which force Baba and Amir to escape to Pakistan and the U.S.
