Continuing our introductions of our team for Sahar Speaks; we met up with Yasmin Joseph, Playwright and one of the current Theatre 503 Five to talk about her play “The Place of Shining Light” which is part of Sahar Speaks: Voices of Women from Afghanistan and how it deals with everything from pursuit of personal goals, gender constructs and ‘politics of the family’. “I was drawn to the project’s focus on empowering Afghan women to occupy space in a male dominated industry, vo

“I was keen to be involved in the project – to continue to give these women a voice, and to listen to what they have to say.”

"I’m quite comfortable writing about difficult subjects because I feel it’s important to bring them to mainstream attention. It’s a for