Afghan clowns raise laughs in war-torn Kabul focus 01/04/2011

Afghan clowns raise laughs in war-torn Kabul

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01/04/2011
KABUL — Two Afghan policemen stand paralyzed by fear in front of a plastic cup. But this is not some farcical scene from the battle against the Taliban — it is a sketch from a new clown show in Kabul.

The performance, put on by nine members of the Azdar troupe, seems improbable in a country locked in a nine-year battle between US-led Nato troops and the Islamist militants.

But it is part of increasing efforts to foster a revival of Afghan theater, which enjoyed a golden age in the 1960s and 1970s before being hit hard by war and the closure of theaters under the hardline Taliban Islamists, who took power during the mid-1990s..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110104com7.html