Perloff is also an award-winning playwright. Her other productions include Hecuba, Mary Stuart, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Tosca Café, The Voysey Inheritance, Scorched, and Underneath the Lintel. Known for innovative productions of classics and for championing new writing and new forms of theatre, she has directed classical plays from around the world, 10 plays by Tom Stoppard (including the American premieres of The Invention of Love and Indian Ink, also at Roundabout Theatre Company, and two productions of Arcadia), and many productions by favorite contemporary writers such as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, José Rivera, and Philip Kan Gotanda. She commissioned and developed this adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns. This production contains simulated explosions/strobe, atmospheric effects including smoke and haze, violence and adult content.ĬAREY PERLOFF ( Director) is the former Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theater celebrating 25th seasons.
Called “emotionally stirring” ( Los Angeles Times), this gripping and heart-rending fight for survival will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.Ī Thousand Splendid Suns is generously sponsored by Beth Newburger Schwartz and Michele and Allan Berman.Ī Thousand Splendid Suns runs approximately two and a half hours, including one 15-minute intermission. Hopes of a new life lead to an unselfish and shocking decision, changing the course of their futures forever. In the war-ravaged Kabul, Miriam and Laila become unlikely allies in the face of the insurmountable odds of a brutal and oppressive way of life. “Emotionally Stirring! ”Īdapted from the New York Times bestselling novel by Khaled Hosseini ( Kite Runner), the lives of two Afghan women are inextricably bound together.
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