The Afghan Women
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The Afghan Women is a play by Emmy Award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone. It premiered in 2003 at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton, New Jersey. The first dozen performances raised US$10,000 for Afghan orphans. In January 2004, Mastrosimone presented a reading of the play to actors in Kabul.
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The play is set after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. The heroine is an Afghan woman whom had fled her homeland during the Civil War, but now returns from the United States to found an orphanage. In the ensuing plot, a warlord fails as he attempts a coup. As he retreats, he tries to use the orphans as human shields, prompting the heroine to kill the warlord. She then inspires the warlord's vengeful son to find other choices than violence.
