Play Details
Dates
Times
3 PM – Sat & Sun
Price
Venue
Opening NIght

September 7 - 24
|
2023
Selling Kabul
Written by
Sylvia Khoury
Directed by
Taylor Reynolds
Taroon once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Now it is 2013, and the Americans — and their promises of safety — have begun to withdraw. Taroon spends his days in hiding, a target of the increasingly powerful Taliban. On the eve of his son’s birth, he must remain in his sister’s apartment, or risk his life to see his child. With shattering precision, Sylvia Khoury’s tense drama traces the human cost and the legacy of our longest war.
Selling Kabul received its New York Premiere at Playwrights Horizons (Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director, Leslie Marcus, Managing Director, Carol Fishman, General Manager) in November 2021, Directed by Tyne Rafaeli. The New York Premiere was produced in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Cast
Atra Asdou as Afiya
Anat Cogan as Leyla
Afsheen Misaghi as Jawid
Zaven Ovian as Taroon
Understudies
René Mayo, Afiya / Leyla Understudy
Raul Ortega III, Taroon / Jawid Understudy
Creative Team
Taylor Reynolds, Director
Ashley Basile, Set Design
Shivanna Sooknanan, Costume Design
Zack Gage, Lighting Design
Frederick Kennedy, Co-Sound Design
Liam Bellman-Sharpe, Co-Sound Design
Liss Faitoute, Props Master
Humaira Ghilzi, Cultural Consultant
Louis Sallan, Dialect Coach
Dale Smallwood, Production Stage Manager
Pat McCorkle, Casting Director
Show dates
Please Note: There will be no late entry for Selling Kabul.
3:00 pm
Saturday, September 9
Sunday, September 10
Saturday, September 16
Sunday, September 17
Saturday, September 23
Sunday, September 24
8:00 pm
Thursday, September 7
Friday, September 8*
Saturday, September 9
Thursday, September 14
Friday, September 15
Saturday, September 16
Thursday, September 21
Friday, September 22
Saturday, September 23
Tickets
$75 Opening Night
(performance + party)
$35 Standard
$25 Senior (65+)
$25 Kean Alumni/Staff
$20 ADA
$15 Student
Opening Night
Celebrate the opening night of Selling Kabul with us!
Pre-show cocktail party with live music on the patio at Kean University’s Liberty Hall Academic Center.
Opening night performance of Selling Kabul.
Champagne reception in the Bauer Boucher Theatre Center Lobby.
Purchase your opening night tickets for Selling Kabul.
Audience Extras
Engage more deeply with the play in our free talkbacks following select matinee (3:00pm) performances.
Jennifer Gill and former Interpreter Shafiullah Sahil, One World One Love
Director Taylor Reynolds
Freshta Taeb, NJ Coalition for Afghan Refugees
The cast of Selling Kabul
Production Photos





