Tartuffe to start at Napa from Sept 11

Karachi
Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664. Fawad Khan will direct an adapted version of the comedy play in 2015 starting from September 11. Khan said irrespective of the fact that the play was written and first performed decades ago, every single line seemed to be written for the contemporary Pakistani society.
“The comedy play from which the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) would be starting its theatre season is an effort to look into society through the prism of humour,” said veteran actor Arshad Mahmood, whose evergreen character of Chaudhry Sahib in Aangan Terha remains imprinted generation after generation.
“The play’s translation has been carried out tremendously by Khalid Ahmed.”
Acting maestro Rahat Kazmi said there remained a stereotype that Napa had restricted itself to serious theatre. He hoped that the play would quash it with its success.
Kazmi also predicted that as in the case of film and drama, there would soon be a theatre revival in Pakistan.
“Perhaps it will take time, but it will,” he added and mentioned the National College of Art’s role in giving remarkable painters to the country.
Zakiullah, a third-year student at the academy and the protagonist of the play, said though the drama had been performed in-house before but this time it would be executed on a grand scale. The play will continue till September 20 at the Napa auditorium.