![]() ![]() ![]() It chronicles the life of Amir (Amir Arison), a wealthy Afghan boy who becomes an American novelist after he and his father (the forceful Faran Tahir) escape the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Kite Runner became a literary sensation in the early 2000s and rightly so: It's a great book that tells a compelling story about male relationships. But Matthew Spangler's script is just so clumsy, and Giles Croft's production (which originated at the Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman in England in 2013 before moving to the West End years later) is just so bland, that I couldn't help but wonder why this is the theatricalized version of the material that a group of more than two-dozen producers chose to take to Broadway. Not that it exists the dramatic bones within Khaled Hosseini's beloved and bestselling novel are strong and worthy. I'm sort of baffled by the stage adaptation of The Kite Runner at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Amir Arison and the cast of The Kite Runner on Broadway ![]()
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