Pakistan's Theatre Revolution

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In 1984 a group of young people formed the Ajoka theatre group. Created at a time of heightened tensions and censorship due to the state of emergency imposed by the then military dictatorship of General Zia ul-Huq, it pioneered theatre for social change in Pakistan. Farhana Haider has been speaking to Fawzia Afzal-Khan who acted in the company's first original play.

(Members of the Ajoka theatre group 1988; Credit Fawzia Afzal-Khan)

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0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
1:01.8	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
1:06.2	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
1:11.2	telly we share what we've been watching.
1:13.5	Cladiyated!
1:15.5	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
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