by Imran Iftikhar About a month and a half ago, I received a WhatsApp notification on Farmers in the Dell, the group which contains the general members of Theatre Wallay. It was a call for a meeting. There are 35 people in that group, a motley collection of different people connected by their love for theatre. Now we are all used […]
Rung School of Music and Arts and Theatre Wally bring you the Acting Class every Tuesday and Thursday. It is a 3-month course starting on February 04, 2020. Anyone and everyone should attend these basic level acting classes even if they are not planning to adopt acting as a career. The Acting Class will help you gain confidence to speak […]
Zindagi Tamasha is a new film – everything about this film is new or at least relatively new. Khoosat Films is a new company, Sarmad Khoosat and Kanwal Khoosat, though not new to films or theater, but definitely new producers. Almost all the actors are new actors – Arif Hassan, Eman Suleman, Ali Kureshi are new actors and it is […]
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. […]
Theatre Wallay launched its new initiative, “Ustad Raza Ali Khan School of Music” with a classical music concert ‘Mehfil-e-Khayal-o-Sama’ on April 27, 2019. At the school, beginner and advanced training in classical music (vocals and multiple instruments) will be offered, under the guidance and patronage of Ustad Raza Ali Khan. Students will also have the opportunity to learn directly from […]
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 […]