Kandahar to Canada — Blackbird Archive

← v17n1, Spring 2018

TIME Winter 2012.

PLACE Kandahar International Airport, then Toronto Pearson International Airport.

CAST PAUL WATSON, middle-aged. Journalist. ROYA SHAMS, 17. Afghan schoolgirl. OFFICER, 20s. Afghan police officer in Kandahar, Canadian immigration officer in Toronto.

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Lily Basen as Roya and Lou Liberatore as Paul in a 2013 performance of Kandahar to Canada (the 34th Marathon of One-Act Plays at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre).

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Dan O’Brien

Dan O’Brien is the author of Dan O’Brien: Plays One (Oberon Books, 2017) and the poetry collections War Reporter (Hanging Loose Press, 2013), Scarsdale (Measure Press, 2015), and New Life (Hanging Loose Press, 2016). His awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama & Performance Art; the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play; the 2013 inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History; the PEN Center USA Award for Drama; and, for poetry, the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Photo by Brett Simison