Kabul Goes pop

Kabul Goes Pop brings us into a world post the US invasion that is complex, contradictory, and shocking – all to a soundtrack of early 00 pop!
 
“In Afghanistan there are many important issues. So I am asking a very important question.
 
Britney, or Shakira?
 
Who is the real Queen of Pop?”
 
Inspired by a true story of Afghanistan’s first youth music TV programme, Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan explores the devastating effects as two young friends take on the political landscape while trying to build a new Afghanistan.
Kabul Goes Pop brings us into a world post the US invasion that is complex, contradictory, and shocking – all to a soundtrack of early 00 pop!
 
A Brixton House production, presented with HighTide in association with the Mercury Theatre Colchester.
 
A debut play by Waleed Akhtar