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Friday, November 06, 2009
By Rafay Mahmood
Karachi
A team of National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) graduates returned to Karachi last week from Amritsar, India, after a successful show at the South Asia Foundation Festival for Peace-2009. They had performed an experimental play, titled “Jaaney Pehchaney Ajnabi”, under the direction of Zain Ahmed. The efforts of the troupe were largely appreciated.
“We received a brilliant response and the crowd was overwhelmed by such an experimental theatrical performance by a troupe from Pakistan,” Zeeshan Haider, a member of team, told The News. He added that the unique thing about the performance was that there were no inanimate props; the performers were themselves converting into chairs and other required props.
Other members of the group were Ali Rizvi, Paras Masroor, Aiman Tariq, Kashif Farhad, Farhan Saqib Khan, Maria Rabab and Mohsin Ali. They were lead by NAPA faculty member, Zain Ahmed.
Members of the group said that this was the first time that NAPA students received international experience, which has proved to be very helpful. They said that they “learnt a lot” from actors “from the other side of the border.”
N.K Raina, a well-known theater artist from India, was so pleased with the performance that he expressed his intentions to have a cross-border collaboration of theater artists.
The South Asia Foundation Festival for Peace was a 15-day festival which included people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. NAPA and Ajoka were the only two Pakistan-based theater groups that were invited to perform in the festival. Individual Pakistan-based performers who were part of the festival include Sheema Kirmani, Sania Saeed, and Tina Sani.
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