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Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan Waleed Akhtar

Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan By Waleed Akhtar

Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan by Waleed Akhtar


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A play inspired by the true story of Afghanistan's first youth music programme, exploring a world following the US invasion that is complex, contradictory and shocking - all to a soundtrack of early noughties' pop.

Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan Summary

Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan by Waleed Akhtar

'Today in Afghanistan there are many important issues that we are facing in our country, and I want us to look at some of these issues. So I am asking you, the audience, to help answer a very important question. Britney or Shakira?'

Afghanistan. It's 2004. Farook and Samia broadcast live every day to the whole of Kabul, delivering ninety minutes of musical bliss: Britney, Backstreet Boys and Enrique Iglesias. But when their show starts to make waves, the two young friends must take on repressive forces to build a new Afghanistan.

Inspired by the true story of Afghanistan's first youth music programme, Waleed Akhtar's play Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan explores a world following the US invasion that is complex, contradictory and shocking - all to a soundtrack of early noughties' pop.

The play premiered at Brixton House, London, in 2022, directed by Anna Himali Howard, before touring the UK. It was presented with HighTide, in association with Mercury Theatre Colchester.

Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan Reviews

'A fizzing tribute to bubblegum songs of hope'

* Guardian *

'A cracker... pulses with energy... powerful and compelling... heartbreaking'

* The Stage *

'An elegantly written, often very funny, piece that works precisely because it takes a moral position on Afghanistan... underlying every word, there is a raw and admirable fury'

* New European *

About Waleed Akhtar

Waleed Akhtar is an actor, writer and director. His other plays include The P Word (Bush Theatre, London).

Additional information

GOR013030768
9781839040931
1839040939
Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan by Waleed Akhtar
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Nick Hern Books
2022-05-19
80
N/A
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