began withdrawing large numbers of troupes from Afghanistan after a decade of occupying that country following 9/11, it also hauntingly reminds us of more recent events in Afghanistan when the Taliban retook the country and the last of the U.S.
Theatre could be subtitled “The Play About The Neighbor Who Wouldn’t Leave” but while the play has numerous moments of humor, that facetious addition wouldn’t be an honest indicator of this tense and very timely new play by Sylvia Khoury.Īlthough the play premiered in 2019 and is set in 2013 at a time when the U.S. SELLING KABUL, the current play onstage at Seattle Rep’s Leo K. Yousof Sultani in Selling Kabul at Seattle Rep.