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Nadia Parvez Manzoor and her solo show “Burq Off!”

Performer Nadia Parvez Manzoor was raised in a conservative Pakistani Muslim home in cosmopolitan London. Her autobiographical solo show, "Burq Off!" (Hollywood's Elephant Theatre, July 17-19; San Francisco's Exit Theatre, July 24-26), illuminates her experience as an independent-minded young woman struggling to become her own person amidst the strictures placed upon her by her culture. BY DEBORAH KLUGMAN

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