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THE KITE RUNNER Arizona Theatre Company Play Guide 1

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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>KITE</strong> <strong>RUNNER</strong><br />

CHARACTERS<br />

WALI: Twelve years old. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.<br />

KAMAL: Twelve years old. Afghan ethnic Pashtun<br />

MRS. NGUYEN: Mid fifties. Vietnamese shop owner.<br />

GENERAL TAHERI: Mid fifties. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.<br />

WALI: Twelve years old.<br />

Afghan ethnic Pashtun.<br />

Did you know<br />

ATC’s production of<br />

The Kite Runner has:<br />

451 individual costume pieces total<br />

90 pairs shoes<br />

22 pieces facial hair/ wigs<br />

SORAYA: Amir’s wife. Early twenties when they first meet and late thirties by the end of the<br />

play. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.<br />

DR. SCHNEIDER: American oncologist of Russian parents.<br />

FARID: Thirties to fifties Afghan ethnic Tajik.<br />

ZAMAN: Thirties to fifties. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.<br />

SOHRAB: Hassan’s son. Ten years old. Afghan ethnic Hazara.<br />

OMAR FAISAL: Pakistani/American immigration attorney.<br />

RAYMOND ANDREWS: Early forties to late fifties. American Embassy Official in Pakistan.<br />

PAKISTANI DOCTOR: Surgeon in a Pakistani hospital.<br />

A TABLA PLAYER: Musician who accompanies the action.<br />

The ensemble also plays <strong>KITE</strong> <strong>RUNNER</strong>S and FLYERS, REFUGEES , RUSSIAN SOLDIERS,<br />

TALIBAN SOLDIERS, GUARDS and all other roles.<br />

SYNOPSIS<br />

SYNOPSIS<br />

Barzin Akhavan and Gregor Paslawsky in The<br />

Kite Runner. Photo by Kevin Berne.<br />

Amir, an Afghan-American living in San Jose, CA,<br />

gets a phone call one day which pulls him back<br />

into his past in an instant. Growing up a member<br />

of the privileged ethnic Pashtun class in Kabul,<br />

Afghanistan, Amir lived a life of privilege made<br />

possible by his father’s money and his servants’<br />

work. His childhood was spent playing side-byside<br />

with a servant boy named Hassan, a member<br />

of the ethnic Hazara people who are looked down<br />

upon in Afghanistan. In a fateful moment, Amir<br />

betrayed his friend and servant, Hassan, and made<br />

a decision that haunted him for years to come,<br />

long after he and his father left Afghanistan behind.<br />

<strong>Arizona</strong> <strong>Theatre</strong> <strong>Company</strong> <strong>Play</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> 5

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