This is a rebroadcast video of the Vortex production of
Gabriel Jason Dean's amazing, heartwrenching drama in which a retired professor in Nebraska, reeling after his adopted daughter Getee is killed by the Taliban while teaching children outside of Kabul, is visited by an Afghan refugee who's carrying Getee's prized books, and – oh, you definitely need to see what happens next. Starring
Kareem Badr,
Kacey Samiee, and
Lowell Bartholomee; directed by
Rudy Ramirez. I can't vouch for the
camerawork on this video – I've not seen it yet – but the show itself, there's no way I can recommend it highly enough. It's so powerful, it's – well, read
Robert Faires' review and you'll get an idea.