Theatre Wallay engaged children aged 10-18 year old through its project ‘Theatre for Tolerance and Peace.’ The project was implemented with support from Critical Connections USA, Karuna Center for Peace, and Peace and Education Foundation. It was a pilot project – 6 months long – to make experimental use of theater techniques to engage children (and by extension their parents) […]
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Report by Ammar Khalid Theatre Wallay held their annual tribute to Urdu literature, Shaam e Sukhan, at Go Organic (in Islamabad, Pakistan) on January 20, 2016. Shaam e Sukhan has been a regular feature of our annual calendar for which we gather and celebrate Urdu literature. This was the fourth edition of the annual event. For this year’s edition, a […]
This is just a quick recap of what we did in the USA. We cannot describe our feelings, and cannot thank enough our hosts for going many many extra miles to make us feel at home, and special. A big THANK YOU to all; you people were wonderful hosts, and extra ordinary audience. Theatre Wallay took its play ‘This Stained […]
[huge_it_slider id=”3″] Team Theatre Wallay would be visiting USA in October/November this year. Here is their itinerary. If you happen to be close to any of the stop-overs, you can join us in one of our performances. Greater Boston Area, MA Our first stop on our USA Tour is Boston, MA.. Tour dates and locations below: Wednesday Oct. 21: […]
[huge_it_slider id=”2″] Theatre Wallay performed its latest play ‘Dhamal Nai Ruk Sakdi’ – a 20 minute play – at the National Library Auditorium in Islamabad on May 30, 2015 at the concluding ceremony of Peace Week organized by Pakistan US Alumni Network. The play was written by Salman Haider, and directed by Salman Haider and Fizza Hasan. The play focused […]
Theatre Wallay performed its play ‘Dagh Dagh Ujala’ in Islamabad on 24th, 25th, and 26th of April 2015. Though the performance venue was a little out of way – in Kuri a suburban town – it was performed before packed hall all three nights. The play was based on true stories collected in the previous phase of its project Voices […]
Urvashi Butalia, the author of The Other Side of Silence, was also here to attend Islamabad Literature Festival. When she heard about the play, she rescheduled her engagements, and came to see the play on the night of 25th April. She was all praises, and expressed her wish that Theatre Wallay could perform it in India. She assured TW that […]
Theatre Wallay has recently concluded the 2nd phase of its project ‘Voices of Partition’. in the second phase, the team focused on collecting oral stories from the partition survivors. The team made great efforts to collect stories from a cross-section of society – from landless farmers to landlords, from those who migrated from Punjab to those who migrated from Bihar, […]
Renowned actress Fawzia Mirza was here in Pakistan recently. She performed her play ‘Me, My Mom, and Sharmila Tagore’ at NAPA theater festival in Karachi, and then made it to Islamabad as well. TW made good use of her presence in Islamabad, and arranged a session for the team to discuss various aspects of theater with Mirza, and learn something from her. […]
Theatre Wallay organized ‘Monologues in Process’ to give a glimpse of its project “Voices of Partition” to the select audiences. The event was held at USEFP premises on January 23, 2015. It was attended by around 50 people from different walks of life. The monologues were based on some stories of Partition survivors collected in the preceding weeks. Selected parts […]