In this satire, Henry Naylor looks at the absurdity of war
Live Mint“War correspondents are some of the funniest people I know; funnier than any comedians,” says Henry Naylor, an award-winning playwright based in the UK. There’s always humour to be had in any situation.” The comedian-playwright is going to be in Hyderabad to stage his play Afghanistan Is Not Funny on 10 December as part of the Manam Theatre Festival’s inaugural edition, on till 17 December. With its premiere at the Adelaide Fringe in early 2021, this part-memoir and “weird fusion of stand-up and drama with visual elements of photographs” was one of the winners of last year’s international fringe circuit. In Afghanistan Is Not Funny, there’s a lot going on as Naylor speaks to the audience about his experiences in the war zone from 20 years ago, against the backdrop of Maynard’s evocative photographs.
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