World Premiere Drama – Love in Afghanistan

Resident playwright Charles Randolph-Wright to present Love in Afghanistan at Arena Stage

directed by Lucie Tiberghien

in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle

OCTOBER 11 – NOVEMBER 17, 2013

From resident playwright Charles Randolph-Wright (Blue, Cuttin’ Up) comes a daring world premiere drama set to take audiences on a Arena Stage Logo Newthrilling, romantic adventure in a chaotic land. Meet Duke and Roya, two fantastically different people discovering love in the most

unlikely of places: war-torn Afghanistan. One, an emerging hip-hop artist, the other, a high-level Afghan interpreter, both fight to navigate the pitfalls of romance amid the cultural land mines of religious differences and political unrest.