Theatre Wallay started its project Voices of Partition in December 2014, and completed it in November 2015. In the first phase, the stories of partition survivors were collected, and a play titled ‘Dagh Dagh Ujala’ was developed based on those stories. The play was performed in Islamabad and Lahore in April and May 2015. In the second phase, the play […]
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Report by Ammar Khalid Theatre Wallay held their annual tribute to Urdu literature, Shaam e Sukhan, at Go Organic (in Islamabad, Pakistan) on January 20, 2016. Shaam e Sukhan has been a regular feature of our annual calendar for which we gather and celebrate Urdu literature. This was the fourth edition of the annual event. For this year’s edition, a […]
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, […]