Casting announced for A Thousand Splendid Suns
Tue 18 Feb, 2025
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Playhouse production
A Thousand Splendid Suns
28 May – 14 Jun 2025
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Tickets£15.00 - £47.50
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VenueQuarry
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Running time2 hrs 30 mins
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Age guidance14+
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Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham Rep and Nottingham Playhouse present a powerful new production of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's spiritual sequel to The Kite Runner.
In 1992 in an Afghanistan ravaged by war, an orphaned Laila is left alone in an increasingly threatening world. Her older neighbour Rasheed is quick to open his home and takes Laila as his second wife.
Rasheed’s first wife Mariam has no choice but to accept her younger, and now pregnant, rival. As the Taliban take over, life for all of them becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, and the two women find themselves unlikely allies.
Former Birmingham Rep and Hampstead Theatre Artistic Director, Roxana Silbert directs this unflinching, life affirming drama, in which love grows and sustains the human spirit even during the hardest of times.
Cast
David Ahmad
Babi, Mullah Faizullah Zaman & Militiaman
Rina Fatania
Mariam
Kerena Jagpal
Laila
Jonas Khan
Rasheed
Jonny Khan
Tariq, Wakil & Driver
Noah Manzoor
Zalmai & Wakil’s Wife
Peyvand Sageghian
Nana, Fariba & Doctor
Tahir Shah
Jalis, Abdul Sharif, Interrogator & Militiaman
Humera Syed
Young Mariam, Asia & Nurse
Creatives
Khaled Hosseini
Novel
Ursula Rani Sarma
Stage adaptation
Roxana Silbert
Director
Simon Kenny
Set & Costume Designer
Matt Haskins
Lighting Designer
Clive Meldrum
Sound Designer
Elaha Soroor
Composer
Kuldip Singh Barmi
Movement Director
Rachid Sabitri
Fight Director
Jessica Hrabowsky
Fight Director
Helena Palmer
Casting Director
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