The Kite Runner
Adapted by Matthew Spangler, Based on the Novel by Khaled Hosseini
Hammer Theatre and EnActe Arts
“I became what I am today at the age of twelve; I remember the precise moment … It’s wrong what they say about the past, about how you can bury it because the past claws its way out.”
And so near three decades later, on the west coast of a continent an ocean and a lifetime away from his now-destroyed homeland, an Afghan American in Fremont, California begins to share vivid scenes from his memory bank – scenes recalling happier times in a country now marred forever by horrific wars, recalling a narrow escape from sure death, recalling a new homeland full of wonder, and most of all, recalling one act as a kid that has since haunted him and filled him with unrequited guilt.
San Jose State University’s Hammer Theatre in conjunction with EnActe Arts initiates the national tour of Matthew Spangler’s stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel, The Kite Runner. The fourteen-city tour begins in the space where the now-defunct San Jose Repertory Company produced the world premiere in 2009 of a beautifully moving play about one man’s harrowing journey across the world to find forgiveness and thus to discover how he “can be good again.”
For my complete review, please proceed to Talkin’Broadway.
Rating: 5 E
The Kite Runner closes its sold-out, too-short run in San Jose 2 p.m., Sunday, April 7, next appearing in Tempe, AZ, April 9-14, 2024. A full schedule of its touring appearances and ticket purchase information is available at https://thekiterunnerbroadway.com .
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus
