by David Studwell Beginning in August of 1947, the largest mass migration in history began as fifteen million men, women, and children left their ancestral homes to cross the newly drawn borders between India and the new country of Pakistan. During and after the partition of India over one million people died as a result of violence that erupted between […]
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by Kathleen Mulligan I have always been deeply curious about the stories of my family history and the lives of the people who came before me. That curiosity, combined with a deepening love for the subcontinent, inspired the first seeds of the idea for a Voices of Partition project while David and I were in Islamabad on Fulbright grants in […]
We received several humbling and overwhelming responses from the audience of our latest production Daagh Daagh Ujala. Many Partition survivors who saw the performance appreciated the sensitivity with which the play was put together, and commended Theatre Wallay on taking initiative to tell first-hand accounts of Partition survivors. One such audience member commented that the performance was so moving that […]
by Sarwat Ali This article was published in The News on Sunday after Theatre Wallay staged ‘Godot ke Intizar Mein’ at Alhmara, Lahore in July 2012. It was good to see Theatre Wallay’s ‘Godot ke Intizar Mein’, an Islamabad play being staged in Lahore. It was even better than the next-door ‘Pawnay 14 August’, at Alhamra Hall 1, written by Anwar Maqsood […]