Shakespeare’s play staged at Edwardes College

PESHAWAR: The students of the Edwardes College staged a classic play of William Shakespeare on Thursday at the college’s old hall.

The event was attended by a large number of students from Fata University, Islamia College University and University of Peshawar, besides faculty members of the college.

The Edwardes College Peshawar Stage enjoys a historical prestige and has produced talents such as Prithvi-Raj Kapoor in the past. Almost every year, the society transforms students with little or no experience of acting into talents of a calibre fit for professional theatre acting. The Society has performed numerous literary and dramatic masterpieces.

More recently, it enacted Sophocles’ classic Antigone; a stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel: Les Miserables; and, a Shakespearian medley: combining Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra which was a one-of-its-kind performance unique to the Edwardes Stage since nowhere in the world had a medley of this kind been ever performed, says a press release. The last performance at Edwardes Stage was the enactment of the murder-mystery The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie.

Prof Nasir Iqbal, director of the stage play, said it took him and his team almost four months to come up with the classic English play ‘Othello’ by Shakespeare whose genius was still relevant to our time and society. The cast list of the play included Safian Khan, Azmatullah, Syed Khizar, Shaban Khattak, Tabish, Hania Afridi, Aftab Amin, Wasim Amin, Haider Jan, Salman Haider, Shahab Khan, Mahnoor Dilawar, Nasal Fatima, and Waqas Shah.