When Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner appeared on screens last year, the film captured the desperate, epic drama of the book with vast landscapes and a vibrant score. This week, Sorab Wadia (pictured) performs a new adaptation of The Kite Runner: a quiet, reflective one-man play. The novel's focus on inner tension as the protagonist dwells on childhood betrayal is emphasized and explored through soliloquy in a deliberate and tortured admission of remorse that gradually leads to a chance for redemption. The audience watches the slow unfolding of an internal crisis rather than an international one, and, instead of a sense of place and tragic narrative, is met with the weight of guilt and a tormented narrator.
Oct. 21, 8 p.m., $15, Bowker Auditorium, 300 Massachusetts Ave., UMass-Amherst, (413) 577-2486, www.fineartscenter.com.
