Theatre Wallay organized performances of two short plays of Anton Chekhov in Islamabad on 19th and 20th November 2016. The performances were held in Aiwan-e-Quaid Auditorium in F-9 Park. The two selected plays were “The Proposal” and “The Bear”. It was a well-attended event. TW came up with an English performance after a long time. Many foreigners working in Islamabad […]
A workshop titled ‘Theater Basics for Beginners’ was organized by Safeer Ullah Khan – a member of PUAN (IVLP 2013). Financial support was provided by PUAN and US Embassy Islamabad, while technical support was provided by Theatre Wallay – an Islamabad based theater group. The workshop was announced through Facebook, and more than 35 people signed up. As we had […]
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) […]
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 […]
by Fizza Hasan The idea of a creative project on the Partition has always been close to my heart. Born into a family of people who migrated in 1947, my father’s family from Panipat, and my mother’s from Meerut, I grew up listening to stories of the Partition. Accounts of the aristocratic life in Panipat, of the house with a […]
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 […]
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 […]