by Zehra Abid In a world where too many people are separated from their loved one’s today, people from both sides of the border have seized this opportunity to reconnect, digitally restoring long-severed ties with intellectual and cultural engagement online that bring together Indians and Pakistanis, finally, on the same forums. Aakhri Salute is a reminder of how unbreakable these bonds […]
Theater
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Theatre Wally (TW) bring you the Acting Class every Monday and Thursday. It is a 3-month course starting on August 04, 2020. We will keep physical distance and provide sanitizers. Handwashing facility has always been there. Anyone and everyone should attend these basic level acting classes even if they are not planning to adopt acting as a career. The Acting […]
Theatre Wallay, in collaboration with Migrant Resource Center (MRC), performed its new production ‘Bhago – A Play on Illegal Migration’ at various venues in Gujranwala, Gujrat, and Mandi Bahauddin – 3 performances in each district. It toured the target districts in Dec 2019. Illegal migration, helped by a network of human smugglers, is a decades old phenomenon in Pakistan. illegal […]
The Acting Class students received standing ovation from audiences at the last show of ‘Main Ne Kuch Nahi Keya’ – an Urdu play scripted jointly by the students. They performed the play twice on 27th and 28th July 2019. Rung School of Music and Arts collaborated with Theatre Wallay to conduct a three-month acting course from late February to May […]
Theatre Wallay, with support from Total PARCO, Alliance Francaise D’ Islamabad, and the Embassy of France, performed Moliere’s The School for Wives (L’école des femmes) in Islamabad. It was performed for a select audience in the Diplomatic Enclave on July 14, 2019, and for the general public at the Farm @ Bani Gala on 17th and 18th July. Later it […]
By Ali Akbar ANote from Theatre Wallay Theatre Wallay and Rung School of Music and Arts joined hands to start a three-months long acting class. Theatre Wallay conducts the class while Rung School provides logistic and administrative support. It was started as a pilot in February 2019, and will conclude with a theater performance in the last week of June. […]
by Adnan Ahmed Khan It was mid December 2018 when my friend and colleague, Belal, had a sudden urge to run away to Karachi to become an actor. Every break in our work hours would be consumed by discussing how he could become a successful actor. After lots of arguments, he agreed to my proposition that it would be imprudent […]
By Imran Iftikhar Last year [2017], I, along with my theater company, performed at the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Oregon, USA. It was a play about Pakistan that we had written and were then performing for an American audience. The response was unbelievable. We had a total audience of about 3000 people. We were humbled by the love and […]
by Imran Iftikhar About three years ago, I received a text from Fizza, my former boss at the school where I used to teach. She was also artistic director of a theater company, Theatre Wallay, of which I am a member now. She told me that her company was starting work on a new play, and was wondering if I […]
Theatre Wallay and Rung School of Art and Music have joined hands to bring you an exciting opportunity to learn acting. It is a 3-months course. The acting students will go through the complete process of developing a play from scratch.The course will end with a short performance. Start Date: Feb 25, 2019 – Twice a weekDays/Timings: 6:30 PM to […]