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 […]
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. […]
Fawzia Mirza visited Pakistan bringing her show ‘Me, My Mom, and Sharmila Tagore’ to Pakistan. Theatre Wallay acted as host, and took benefit of her presence by organizing an interactive session for team Theatre Wallay with Fawzia Mirza. This what she had to say about Theatre Wallay after the sessions:
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 […]
Theatre Wallay, in collaboration with Ithaca College New York, organized a training workshop for its project team working on Voices of Partition (VoP) in Islamabad from 19th January 2015 to 23rd January 2015. The workshop was aimed at equipping the team with necessary skills so that they can train university students on collecting real life first-hand stories of partition and […]
Theatre Wallay organized its annual feature – Shaam-e-Sukhan on January 17, 2015. This time, it was a very different event due to the current socio-political situation of the country. The event was held in the open, and the chosen theme was ‘religious bigotry, terrorism, and extremism’. Participation was low as petrol crisis hit mobility of the residents of the twin […]