WHERE THERE WAS FIRE ASHES REMAIN - Opening Night

In August of 2021, the United States completed one of the largest air-evacuations in history, removing all of their armed forces, American citizens, and selected Afghans from the devastated country of Afghanistan. After more than twenty years of war, the Taliban once again seized power and began their tyrannical reign, effectively turning back the clock decades to a past era of gender apartheid.

Taking immediate action to dominate and subordinate the female strata of the population, the Taliban has forced Afghan women back into head-to-toe burkas, while stripping them of their fundamental human rights. Girls and young women are once again denied secondary and university education, forced to leave their jobs, and kept indoors. In a shocking decree announced just this February, all pharmacies in two major cities of Afghanistan were ordered by the Taliban to stop stocking all forms of birth control medicines. Restricting contraceptives is devastating to women…