A high-ranking Afghan diplomat and a British dramatist are meeting a lot these days to discuss their common agenda: staging a play about violence-racked Afghanistan.
Haron Amin, Afghanistan's ambassador to Japan, has been working closely with Tokyo-based playwright Alec Harris on the work, which will be staged in Tokyo in June.
The play re-enacts the political turmoil, assassinations and factional strife that have afflicted Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion of 1979. It also showcases the life story of the ambassador as a witness to the drastic social changes after the Soviet takeover of his homeland.