“The performance has a quiet authority, even delicacy that is truly powerful.” – Margo Jefferson, The New York Times

Exile Theatre, an award-winning company from Afghanistan, returns to the USA in Fall 2008 for the West Coast premiere of Beyond the Mirror, created and performed in collaboration with Bond Street Theatre of New York.

Woven through myths and memories, family stories and first-hand accounts of ordinary Afghans, traditional dances and live music, Beyond the Mirror weaves an intricate tapestry of life in Afghanistan over the last three decades.

The two theatre companies have been working together since first meeting in the refugee camps of Pakistan just after September 11th.

PLEASE HELP US BRING Beyond the Mirror and our video-lecture, The Power of Performance: Theatre in War Zones to a West Coast venue!
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The 2005 US debut of Beyond the Mirror received stunning reviews:

“The most stirring, affecting and significant event of the theatre season.” – Martin Denton, nytheatre.com

“The troupe’s inventiveness makes the effects of war viscerally clear.” – Josselyn Simpson, Time Out New York

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