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AZDAR THEATRE
The Azdar Theatre Group was founded in 2006 by the french theater director Guilda Chahverdi and a couple of young actors.

The group unites young alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts whose aims are to growth, increase and to transport the Afghan culture with the

means of theatre and, in doing so, rescue and preserve cultural values in Afghanistan. Several productions by

the group won prizes and were shown on a national Afghan festival. The members of the group are also part of the group „Parwaz Puppet Theatre “, the

first independent group of puppeteers in Afghanistan founded in 2009.

Founding member of this group is German puppeteer Wieland Jagodzinski.

Parwaz is being supported by the “Goethe – Institute / Afghanistan”.

Afghan children hardly have any theatre experience. Parwaz Puppet Theater is trying to offer them an entry into the theatre world with the help of puppet

theatre. Also, puppet theatre can inform and enlighten in a playful way. Azdar Theatre was invited twice to perform at the international theatre festival

in New Delhi, in 2012 with the “Little Prince” and in 2013 with the “Tale of a Tiger”.

Ahmad Nasir, actor, director and puppeteer, took part at the International Forum of Young Theatre Makers at the Berlin Theatretreffen in 2014.

With the help of the “DAAD – German Scholarship”, the “Goethe – Institute” and “Ernst Busch” School of Dramatic Arts, he managed to come to Germany and,

by that time, was the only one of the company who no longer lived in Afghanistan. Both groups were threatened by the Taliban on numerous

occasions. There were repeated attempts of attacks. In December 2014 there was the last performance of the play “Heart Beat – The silence after the explosion “.

A suicide bomber forced entry into the sold-out auditorium right in the middle of the area of the Centre Culturel Français (IFA) in Kabul. The

explosion caused the death of one man, who belonged to a German NGO, and 40 other people were severely hurt. The Taliban awed to the attack.

Supposedly, the play which deals with the effects of terrorist attacks on the living together in Afghan society, poses an insult to Islam and is seen as

propaganda against Jihad. All the members of the company have since been threatened by the Taliban. Therefore, the company can not perform in

Afghanistan anymore. Now most of the Azdar Theatre Compagny is living in Germany and working in different theatres across the country.