This is a photo of the young girls who perform in their original work: Stones and Mirrors. They recently performed at a festival in India. When you see the photos from this link you might wonder as I did what new I could teach them.
www.nsdtheatrefest.com/stones.php
They are between the ages of 12 and 16 and very very skilled perfomers. The most startling thing to me whenever I saw it performed were the masks with their mustaches-young Afghan girls performing on stage very convincingly as men and soldiers (male gestures,body language, etc). This maybe one of the most significant phenomena I observed during this recent visit. Girls performing as boys and men from the four-year olds at the orphanage who turned their head scarves into turbans to the fourteen year old orphanage girl, Fausia, who said, "all Afghan women want to be men."
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