THE KITE RUNNER Arizona Theatre Company Play Guide 1

THE KITE RUNNER
CHARACTERS
WALI: Twelve years old. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.
KAMAL: Twelve years old. Afghan ethnic Pashtun
MRS. NGUYEN: Mid fifties. Vietnamese shop owner.
GENERAL TAHERI: Mid fifties. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.
WALI: Twelve years old.
Afghan ethnic Pashtun.
Did you know
ATC’s production of
The Kite Runner has:
451 individual costume pieces total
90 pairs shoes
22 pieces facial hair/ wigs
SORAYA: Amir’s wife. Early twenties when they first meet and late thirties by the end of the
play. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.
DR. SCHNEIDER: American oncologist of Russian parents.
FARID: Thirties to fifties Afghan ethnic Tajik.
ZAMAN: Thirties to fifties. Afghan ethnic Pashtun.
SOHRAB: Hassan’s son. Ten years old. Afghan ethnic Hazara.
OMAR FAISAL: Pakistani/American immigration attorney.
RAYMOND ANDREWS: Early forties to late fifties. American Embassy Official in Pakistan.
PAKISTANI DOCTOR: Surgeon in a Pakistani hospital.
A TABLA PLAYER: Musician who accompanies the action.
The ensemble also plays KITE RUNNERS and FLYERS, REFUGEES , RUSSIAN SOLDIERS,
TALIBAN SOLDIERS, GUARDS and all other roles.
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
Barzin Akhavan and Gregor Paslawsky in The
Kite Runner. Photo by Kevin Berne.
Amir, an Afghan-American living in San Jose, CA,
gets a phone call one day which pulls him back
into his past in an instant. Growing up a member
of the privileged ethnic Pashtun class in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Amir lived a life of privilege made
possible by his father’s money and his servants’
work. His childhood was spent playing side-byside
with a servant boy named Hassan, a member
of the ethnic Hazara people who are looked down
upon in Afghanistan. In a fateful moment, Amir
betrayed his friend and servant, Hassan, and made
a decision that haunted him for years to come,
long after he and his father left Afghanistan behind.
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