In this satire, Henry Naylor looks at the absurdity of war

The play is a response to Naylor's visit to Afghanistan and has been described as a performance lecture 

- Deepali Singh

War correspondents are some of the funniest people I know; funnier than any comediW ans," says Henry Naylor, an award-winning playwright based in the UK. "In the darkest moments, human beings will find humour as a coping mechanism. Human beings are intrinsically absurd-we do stupid things whether we have an AK-47 in our hands or a pen. There's always humour to be had in any situation."

The comedian-playwright is going to be in Hyderabad to stage his play Afghanistan Is Not Funny on 10 December as part of the Manam Theatre Festival's inaugural edition, on till 17 December. With its premiere at the Adelaide Fringe in early 2021, this part-memoir and "weird fusion of stand-up and drama with visual elements of photographs" was one of the winners of last year's international fringe circuit.