Shakespeare in Afghanistan

Synopsis: Daily current affairs show. This episode focuses on the closed world of women in Afghanistan with the story of a Canadian director, Corinne Jaber, and her staging of Love’s Labour’s Lost in Kabul. Jaber’s challenge was to stage a play in Afghanistan, and to include in her cast Afghan women so crossing a cultural divide and translating Shakespeare to a society so different as Afghanistan.
Series: Our World
Language: English
Country: Canada
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 18 Mar 2007 at 12:00 (Channel: CBC)
Duration: 30 mins

SHAKESPEARE