UO to stage reading of new play by a top writer

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April, 2003

Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard

A reading of a new play by a leading American playwright, a revue that reviews life lessons and a corn-pone comedy will open on local stages this week.

Robinson Theatre

The struggles of an Afghan-American doctor in post-Taliban Afghanistan will be explored in a reading of "The Afghan Women" by Seattle playwright William Mastrosimone at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Robinson Theatre, 1109 Old Campus Lane, on the University of Oregon campus.

Tickets are $5 at the door. All proceeds will go to Afghan orphans through International Orphan Care. Information: 346-4190.

Still in development, "The Afghan Women" is soon to premiere in Kabul, Afghanistan. The drama centers on a doctor who oversees an orphanage...