Review: "A Small and Quiet Light" Illuminates SOE Agent Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Orange Tree Theatre's "A Small and Quiet Light" introduces audiences to Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, the British Indian SOE agent and first woman parachuted into Nazi-occupied France for radio communication, whose story is largely unknown.
I suspect like most people, you have never come across the name of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan before. A mixed-heritage British Indian and Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Nazi-occupied Paris who was the first woman to be parachuted into France to provide radio communication vital to the Resistance when the average life-span of such operators was just six weeks. After providing essential support, she was captured and executed at Dachau and posthumously awarded the George Cross. Stephanie Street's a small and quiet light attempts to unpick her extraordinary story.
_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Review-A-SMALL-AND-QUIET-LIGHT-Orange-Tree-Theatre-20260929)._
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