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6: Waleed Akhtar
In episode 6 we talk to writer and actor Waleed Akhtar about his plays Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan and The P Word.
Waleed Akhtar is a writer and actor. His debut play Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan (2022) at Brixton House, was inspired by the true story of Afghanistan’s first youth music TV programme. Exploring a world following the US invasion of Afghanistan the play was set to a soundtrack of early noughties’ pop. It’s centred around two young friends, Farook and Samia, as they run a live daily broadcast, against the backdrop of a changing political landscape.
He shortly followed this with The P Word at the Bush Theatre, a story of two gay Pakistani men, Zafar, an asylum seeker in the UK fleeing homophobic persecution, and Bilal (or Billy as he prefers) a Londoner, whose worlds collide. The play won the Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre at the 2023 Olivier Awards. He recently released his original audio play Mrs. Bibi on Audible.
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By The Next ActIn episode 6 we talk to writer and actor Waleed Akhtar about his plays Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan and The P Word.
Waleed Akhtar is a writer and actor. His debut play Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan (2022) at Brixton House, was inspired by the true story of Afghanistan’s first youth music TV programme. Exploring a world following the US invasion of Afghanistan the play was set to a soundtrack of early noughties’ pop. It’s centred around two young friends, Farook and Samia, as they run a live daily broadcast, against the backdrop of a changing political landscape.
He shortly followed this with The P Word at the Bush Theatre, a story of two gay Pakistani men, Zafar, an asylum seeker in the UK fleeing homophobic persecution, and Bilal (or Billy as he prefers) a Londoner, whose worlds collide. The play won the Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre at the 2023 Olivier Awards. He recently released his original audio play Mrs. Bibi on Audible.