Mr. I.A. Rehman didn’t sound too keen when I called him up, but he couldn’t refuse his friend, and I was learning to be something that didn’t come naturally to me – pushy.
Partition 1947
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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: […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]