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CBC Radio : Metro Morning : Exciting Events in Toronto

“For those of you who will be vacationing in the city,” there are some exciting events happening in Toronto.

Acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner’s (who gave us Angels in America) play Homebody/Kabul previews this weekend and opens on Monday at Berkley Street Theatre.

Set in London and Kabul in August of 1998, Homebody/Kabul explores life in Afghanistan, its history, its long troubled relationship with the West and its ongoing political and humanitarian crisis.

Homebody/Kabul offers a mature playwright’s compassionate, illuminating and provocative take on the East/West tensions which animate the lives of various inhabitants of Kabul. It’s a suspenseful and intriguing drama which bears witness to their struggles to make sense of lives caught in the cross-fire of an historical ordeal.

The story centers around the disappearance of an eccentric British woman (the Homebody) and the search for her by her husband and daughter in a Taliban-ruled Kabul. In their quest for the truth and closure, the lines between real and unreal, and the political and the personal become blurred and painfully ambiguous.

Homebody/Kabul is a dynamic portrait of lives in chaos which evokes a dangerous collision between cultures. Despite being set in 1998 , the play’s relevance and resonance has not dated.

The cast features Fiona Reid (recently Order of Canada inductee), Sanjay Talwar and Deena Aziz (both from Bombay Black), rising Canadian film star Kris Holden-Ried (Touch of Pink), Lesley Faulkner (Léo) and Michael Spencer-Davis.

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