Pakistan Drama Festival

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ISLAMABAD - The ten-day drama festival started here Tuesday at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) with the play `Tom and Jerry’ by Royal Theater.

The show entitled “PNCA Drama Festival 2011″ will bring 10 theater groups to introduce the trend of traditional theater in the Federal capital while the participating groups will perform their new plays based on social issues during the festival.

Written and directed by Yaar Muhammad Khan, the story of `Tom and Jerry’ revolves around the characters of Tom and Jerry which are the enemies by nature by social dramas make them friends in the play.
The story shows various stages of humans in life including tragedies, poverty, hunger and unemployment and finally they use lie as a tool to maintain their respectable status in the society.

Talking to APP, Director General PNCA, Tauqeer Nasir said the PNCA has been organizing various drama festivals during recent past to promote the trend of quality and thoughtful theater which plays an important role in highlighting and resolving the issues like education, training and social problems.

Positive dramas for youth are the need of hour, he said, adding that this effort will not only bring theater trend in twin cities but also give the message of peace, love and harmony and show Pakistanis as culture loving nation.

“The history of theater is connected with the history of human society and it also lead towards revolutions in shaping the society,” he said.
He said PNCA has doubled its programmes of visual and performing arts during last year for providing quality entertainment in the federal capital.

“We have talent and we have to provide a platform for the new generation,” he said, adding that stage drama is a strong medium of education which played an important role in transforming the societies as it reflects and identify social issues.

The festival will stage the plays like `Kamra No.5′ by Islamabad Art Production, `Kahanian’ by Patan Lok Nattak,`Extra’ by Gravity Production, `Funkar’ by Notanki Theater Rawalpindi, `Aik Raat’ by Supervision Communication, `Wrong Number’ by BF Production, `Khushi’ by The Entertainers, `Draikula’ by Anjum Malik Production, and `Khawab Nagar’ by Evergreen Production.

 

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Drama festival:

ISLAMABAD: “Extra”, the fourth play in Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) ongoing drama festival, highlighted the different phases of life a person goes through in Pakistani society.

The play was about a woman who has worked all her life as an extra in the Pakistan film industry. Written by Yasira Rizvi and directed by Ibrahim Khan, “Extra” featured excellent sets that helped set up the play’s ambience.

The plot revolves around a robbery, where the extra treats the robbers fearlessly, as if in a movie. The interesting dialogues and the fascinating movie-like scenes captured the audience’s imagination and evoked laughter.

The ten-day drama festival will continue till May 19, and aims to promote positive activities among the youth and bring quality entertainment for the fun lovers of the twin cities.

The remaining plays that will be performed at the festival are “Aik Raat” by Supervision Communication, “Wrong Number” by BF Production, “Khushi” by The Entertainers, “Draikula” by Anjum Malik Productions and “Khawab Nagar” by Evergreen Productions.

The organisers of the festival received a total of 20 scripts of which 10 best scripts were chosen for performance.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 15th, 2011.

 

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Kamra No.5

The 10 day Drama Festival 2011 organised by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting entered its second day with ‘Kamra No. 5’, a farce mingling facts and fiction. The play portrays the same chaos and confusion of present times having a stressful impact on our lives as we find it more and more difficult to separate facts from fiction in the live drama enacted before our eyes on the socio-political stage.

Written by Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj and directed by Tahir Siddiqui, the Islamabad Art Productions venture ‘Kamra No. 5’ is all about madness and mayhem in a slapstick package of laughter and suspense. The drama is enacted in a mental asylum with a number of mental patients from different backgrounds appear on stage with their interesting tales. The real suspense starts with the entry of an insurance agent, played by Baten Farooqui, mistakenly taking the room for a hotel.

A room full of mental patients giving loud and weird versions of their story is indeed a meaningful depiction of the bedlam and bewilderment emerging in public minds as they get bombarded everyday with different versions and distorted facts coming from all directions of our real life stage. The theory is that it’s not what one sees or hears, but what is being fed to them by various characters of the society in the name of facts. The best way to experience and relate this play to real life drama is perhaps is to see it on stage.

The cast of the play includes Imtiaz Ali Kashif, Sapna Shah, Saeed Anwar, Ismail Bashir, and Ayesh Khan, each fitted snugly to the roles given by their director.

 

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Great news thanks.

 

[Baby Leone]

Co0ol but i like Tv dramas more....