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, […]
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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. […]
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, […]
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