Bad Homburg – With “The Who and The What” comes on Friday, January 20, 8 p.m., a work on a current topic on the stage of the Kurtheater. The award-winning play by Ayad Akhtar focuses on family conflicts in a migrant family, the emancipation of the daughters and the problems of the father: the family patriarch Afzal, who immigrated to the USA from Pakistan, gets into a father-daughter conflict when he enters a Muslim marriage partner portal Husband is looking for his daughter Zarina.
The tension of the multi-layered drama develops from the content of an explosive novel that Zarina is writing. In her manuscript, the young Muslim woman takes a critical look at the Koran, the image of the prophet and the role of women in Islam.
“As the son of Pakistani immigrants, Akhtar knows the burning questions about identity in the everyday life of migrants and never gives easy answers in this play,” say the organizers. “Ayad Akhtar is exactly the writer we need,” said Daniel Kehlmann in his laudation for Ayad Akhtar, who was awarded the Erwin Piscator Prize 2019 by an international jury.
Admission tickets are available from the Tourist Info in the Kurhaus (phone (0 61 72)1 78 37 10), from Frankfurt Ticket RheinMain (www.frankfurtticket.de), all known advance booking offices and at the evening box office. judo
