KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan -- The Karaganda Stanislavsky Drama Theatre has added a new anti-terrorism play, "Playing Blind," to its repertoire, a source in the theatre management told Caravanserai Wednesday (April 12).
The play relates the story of a Kazakhstani family suffering from extremism and terrorism. During a young couple's travels, the wife is killed in a terrorist attack. The grieving husband almost becomes a terrorist himself when exposed to extremist propaganda.
"When the protagonist wears a suicide belt and threatens to blow up everyone around him, it's terrifying," one audience member, Karaganda resident Yelizaveta Marikova, told Caravanserai. "I don't want this disaster [of terrorism] to affect our country anymore."
The provincial Administration for Religious Affairs commissioned the play. It premiered Tuesday (April 11), with plans for another performance soon.
An Astana theatre staged another anti-terrorism play last October.