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 […]
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, awarded Ithaca College faculty member Kathleen Mulligan a grant for her sabbatical project “Voices of Partition,” a theatrical production based on the narratives of survivors of the violent 1947 partition of Pakistan and India. Mulligan, associate professor of theatre arts, will join with the Theatre Wallay acting company in January to collect survivor narratives, […]
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 […]
United States Education Foundation, Pakistan, in coordination with Theatre Wallay, arranged a theater training workshop at its premises in Islamabad. The training was conducted by Naum Panovski – a Fulbright Scholar, who was visiting Islamabad. It was a 6 days workshop held in the last week of May 2014. The sessions focused on Acting, Direction and Story Telling. It was quite an […]
Theatre Wallay organized its annual event ‘Shaam e Sukhan 2014’ at Kuch Khaas on January 22, 2014. Following are some photos of the event. Shaam e Sukhan 2014
The most watched TV Talk Show of our times, “Siasat at 8 pm”, with well-known host A.D. Chaudhry, as he discusses some of the current issues of our society with eminent guests. “Siasat at 8 pm” is Theatre Wallay’s latest comedy play, highlighting the way the media and prominent politicians and social workers deal with the issues of our times. […]
Theatre Wallay performed this wonderful play in the first week of April 2011 in PNCA Auditorium, Islamabad, Pakistan. This documentary shows the entire process of making of Tartuffe. Further information about the play can be found here.