Play Reading is a popular activity that brings the IAS community together to read plays. The group meets at 7:00 pm on several evenings this year in the Fuld Hall Common Room. The readings are not performances, so you need not be ‘experienced.’ Everyone is given a part to read, but if you prefer to just listen to the play instead of reading a role, come and sit back with a glass of wine and some ‘nibbles’ and enjoy the evening. All are warmly welcome! 

A haunting tale of friendship, spanning cultures and continents, The Kite Runner transports readers to 1970s Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change. Amir, a privileged Pashtun boy, fails to stop a brutal attack on his servant, but really his best friend, Hassan, who is of the largely disdained Hazara ethnic group. Decades later, he is offered a chance to make good on his long-ago betrayal: Asked to rescue Hassan’s young son who has been kidnapped by a particularly cruel Taliban fighter, he takes a dangerous trip, on the eve of the American invasion, into Taliban-controlled Kabul. In just one of the tale’s contrivances, the new villain isn’t so new.

Please contact Annette Munt (amunt@ias.edu) with questions related to this event. 

Please register below to attend this complimentary campus activity.