Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi is looking forward to the revival of dramatic tradition in the country. The minister said this to media representatives, after witnessing a short but quaint dramatic production of Rang from the theatre department of the National College of Arts (Rawalpindi-Islamabad) campus at the Liaquat Hall on Saturday night.
Once upon a time drama had a great tradition, even more than the cinema. A lot of people would go and watch in the evening along with their families, a wholesome and entertaining play. Somehow drama became a terrible thing with lusty and suggestive dialogue which nobody wish to go to.
Ashraf Qazi said that after opening a theatre department in the NCA 'we are providing a space for dramatic production to climb up, and end the isolation in latest technique and innovation that has made theatre a creative endeavour abroad.' The production Rang was abstract in conception. It featured the story of a talented man with vast potential with an ambition to do the very best in all pursuits. But he over-reached himself, not realising that fate (symbolised by a pair of palms, which kept falling in from above now and then) guides the destinies of people- a Greek idea, also subscribed in Eastern mythology.
So he climbed down but that was his undoing because then fate kept taunting him for climbing down from the ambition to do the very best. Yet the man keeps his mental equilibrium because of his grounding in the arts.
The theatre synergy had a lot of mix of kettledrum, (typical Sarmad Sehbai), crooning of Raga Eiman, with modern technology gadgets thrown in between, simulated the commendable art work and melange of colorful patterns. It was a demonstration in scenography, a new subject taught during the past week by British theatre producer, Paul Burgess. The well-known dance choreographer Indu Mitha, sitting in the audience told this scribe, it was all right as an exposition of the possibilities of creating theatre props through the use of light, and music, but with this in vogue the theatre worker would loose his acting career.
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