Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ to be made into a play
While Khurana liked Hosseini’s novel, it was American playwright Matthew Spangler’s rendition of the book as a play that made him want to retell the story on stage. “I didn’t start off as a fanboy of ‘The Kite Runner’. I liked the book, I liked the film, but it wasn’t till I read the play that I began to love it. I then revisited the book and the film and found so much more to appreciate.”
“I’ve always had an affinity for stories set in the Middle East and Western Asia. It’s culturally interesting, emotionally quite like India, and the conflict is inherent. It’s a challenging production, but a terrific tale, and I’m most excited about people with no prior knowledge of it watching it and getting drawn into this epic story of friendship and love and the complexities of loss and guilt,” he added.
The theatre festival will open with an adaptation of Aaron Sorkin’s courtroom drama ‘A Few Good Men’ on September 28.
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