2013
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage presents
Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto
Written & Performed by Anna Khaja
Directed by Heather de Michele
Culture Project
45 Bleecker St, NYC
EXTENDED through April 21!
80 min
Post-Show Talk
Mon, April 8 Post-show talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind and writer/performer Anna Khaja. Talkback included with ticket purchase. You can also bring your ticket stub from a previous performance of Shaheed for free entry. Click to buy.
Meet the Characters
See what the Critics are Saying:
“Khaja is utterly transporting, taking us deep into the psyches of seemingly diverse individuals who are all scarred by their conflicted feelings toward Pakistan, just as the country itself, a nation born of Islamic idealism, has been torn by a host of internal and external forces.”
-Backstage NY
“Four Stars”
“Khaja is a wonder, effortlessly slipping in and out of different personalities, genders, costumes and viewpoints”
-Time Out NY
-nytheatre.com
-Edge NY
"heart-stopping, penetrating, engrossingly informative"
—Backstage NY
Writer/performer Anna Khaja illuminates the lives and historical forces surrounding slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007 while attempting to reunite a nation bitterly divided over the ideals of Islam and democracy. Through the monologues of eight characters that take place in the minutes before Bhutto's death--including Condoleezza Rice and Bhutto herself--we see how Bhutto's life and death resonate far beyond the boundaries of Pakistan, reshaping the world's struggle to reconcile the precepts of Islam with those of democracy.
