Children’sPerforming ArtsFestival26-28 January 2011

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The Little Artin collaboration withAli Institute of Education,Groupe Developpement andPahchaan presents

At Ali AuditoriumAli Institute of EducationFerozpur Road Lahore

Our vision to stage a Children’s Performing Arts Festival refined through our continuous interaction with schools, educational institutes

and organizations working for homeless and marginalized children. As the team organizes Lahore International Children’s Film Festival

each year in Lahore, and several art education initiatives for children and young people, we realized a need to create a meaningful

stage for children.

The Festival aims to promote inclusiveness, bringing children from all segments of society to share a common stage and project the

critical issues children are facing in our time through the performing arts.

We believe that children, irrespective of their social class, gender, family background, income status or educational level need to

express themselves. The Festival worked in shelter homes and organized theater workshops with homeless and marginalized children

from organizations like Sheed and Pahchaan. The performances made in the workshops are presented in the festival.

We received an overwhelming response on the festival call from the schools. Based on the ideas pitched by the schools, the Festival

team curated the plays and also supported the schools to increase the quality of the plays for the festival.

In future, we see this festival becoming a hub of a range of performing arts like mime, drama, puppetry, music and dance, while

curating some of the best plays performed by and for children in Pakistan.

We are thankful to the organizations named The Little Art, Ali Institute of Education, Groupe Developpement and Pahchaan for the

collaboration to make this initiative possible.

We look forward to continue our efforts to promote alternative learning opportunities for children and young people in Pakistan.

Shoaib Iqbal

Festival Director

Children’s Performing Arts 2011

shoaib@lahorechildrenfilm.com

Welcome to the 2011Children’s Performing Arts Festival

This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the above mentioned partners. The views expressed herein are those of “The Little Art” and can therefore in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the above mentioned partners.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist is mainly about police corruption, underscored

by the play's focus on impersonation, infiltration, and double-talk.

A fast-talking major character, the Maniac, infiltrates police headquarters.

Posing as an investigating judge, he tricks the policemen into contradicting

themselves and admitting that they are part of a cover-up involving the death of

an anarchist. In infiltrating police headquarters by misrepresenting himself

(impersonation), the Maniac reminds audiences of how most political groups in

Italy, particularly left-wing groups, were infiltrated by police agents who acted as

informers (This will, obviously, be reworked according to our current situation in

Pakistan). The Maniac's flip-flop of point of view and statement achieves much

the same effect as his impersonations do. His confusing speechifying leads to

the police contradicting themselves, so that the Maniac, in all of his deceptions

and distortions, is a precise reflection of what the play is designed to expose.

Written by: Dario Fo

Director: Muhammad Yahya Cheema

Cast: Abuzar Farrukh, Muhammad Hussain, Waleed Nasir, Haider Iqbal, Wajih

Ullah Khan Niazi, Sheheryar khan, Faseeh Rahman, Sami Adil

Production:Faseeh Rahman, Hamza tahir, Abdullah Haroon, Moiz ud din,

Shehroze Umar, Farzaan Ahmed, Abdul moiz khan, Amun Masud, Saim Bahzad

Assistant Director: Abuzar Farrukh

Age Group: 13-18

Accidental Death of an AnarchistLGS Johar Town (Senior Branch Boys)

Wednesdayth26 Jan

6pm

This play is inspired by the classic “Wizard of Oz”. Its protagonist is a girl who is

coping with the adversities and unpredictability of life living in a country, which is

in constant disorder.

The young girl has a dream which becomes a journey she makes, to find herself

and get courage. On her journey, she is subjected to different challenges which

she is able to successfully triumph. The play comes to an end when she reaches

the “wizard of C'oz” who tells her that she will reach home if she lights a candle,

symbolically achieving her goal, and her new redeemed self.

The play “Wizard of C'oz” essentially attempts to draw attention to the problems

being faced by the youth of Pakistan. They have to endure a myriad of emotions

as they try to think of a way of dealing with the turmoil the country is facing. The

theme of the play, is finding light, hope, an answer when the world seems to be

entrenched in extreme darkness.

“She needs to find the light”, a character says in the play.

Adaption of Wizard Of Oz by Samah Ikram

Director: Samah Ikram

Cast: Seerat Fatima, Syed Misbah Udin, Alizeh waqar, saaid khan, omair samee,

nawal, niha iqbal, anushay raza, hira tahir

Production: Music- Zain Peerzada, Yusuf Ramay, Props- Amna Fazal

Any Other Credits:

Age Group: 17-19

Wizard of C’ozLahore College Of Arts and Sciences (LACAS) Gulberg

Thursdayth27 Jan

11am

The story of a farmer, who is encountered with a tiger in his fields. The tiger is eager to eat his bullocks but the farmer tried to

save them with a plan. He goes to his home and try to convince his wife if they can sacrifice their milch cow.

The farmer’s wife comes up with an intelligent plan which changes the things altogether.

Moral: Don't tie your tale to a coward’s!

A dramatic rendering of a Punjabi folktale

Written and Directed by Huma Safdar

Cast: Anum Masood, Eman Khurram, Amina Fahim Pasha, Arooj Yousaf / Minal Ahsan, Natasha, Sania Shahid, Natasha Nadeem, Noor

Ijaz, Aiman Zahra Bhatti, Minal Ahsan, Saleha Waqar, Aimen Zahra, Kashma Usman Saleem, Reshail Khalild, Mariam Riaz, Aiman Bhatti,

Noor Ijaz, Baneen Zainab Hayat, Zuha Tareen, Pernia Qureshi, Aiman Murtaza, Sheary Zahid, Hira Mudassar, Noor Shahid, Maham Malik,

Amina Fahim, Amina Ahmad, Saadia Hussain, Eiman Khurram, Aashmeen Aamir, Arooj Yousaf, Mariam Hassan, Sana Irfan, Ghania, Misha

Sheikh, Aimen Zahra, Aimen Murtaza, Sania Shahid, Saleha Waqar, Rishail Khalid, Aliya Zahra, Umaima Baig, Sania Shahid, Cheryle Rajis,

Mahnoor, Fatima, Sherry Amjad, Saleha Nadeem, Sana Irfan

Naang Wal (The Knot)LGS Ghalib Market (Junior School)

Thursdayth27 Jan6pm

Our society is afflicted with multi-faceted ills. It takes one of the shapes of

innocent kids being treated with a brute force unparalleled; decapitating both

their minds and souls; consequently, preventing their effective role as responsible

members of the society.

“Gudri Kay Laal” is a play of struggling family which has eleven siblings. All of

them are having different challenges in their lives but trying to make things

better, to become productive and more effective citizens.

Writer: Haneela Shahid

Director: Haneela Shahid, Taabish and Savaiz Elahi

Cast: Kamran Farrukh Nagi, Omer Bin Asad, Muhammad Usman Ali,

Mohammad Abdullah, Shaff Ehsan, Ahmed Sikander, Ammar Rashid, Abdullah

Naveed, M.Qasim Khan, Mohammad Abdullah Naveed, Muhammad Asad

Mehdi, Umar Tayyab, Muhammad Asjad, Saad Tariq, Savaiz Elahi, Muhammad

Ammar Habib, Dawood Tahir, M.Mujtaba, Muhammad Haider, Aitzaz Ali, Zain

Ahmed, Musa Salman, Ibreez Shabkhez

Gudri Kay LaalBeaconhouse School System - Garden Town

Fridayth28 Jan11am

A play by children from an informal school run by SHEED Society, “RajKumari ka

Maidan” is a desire to attain one most basic right of every child which is “to play”.

This performance was prepared during a 5-day theater workshop with children.

Cast: Ahsan, Haider, Kajol, Kashish, Mehr un Nisa, Mehwish, Nauman, Nida,

Rabiya, Samiya

Workshop and Performances Facilitation: Imran Nafees

Rajkumari Ka MaidaanChildren from Sheed Society (Organization)

Six children came together in a theatre workshop at Pahchaan center, to express

the stories they witness on daily basis; nothing is fictional in it. “Mujhay Dar Lagta

Hai” narrates in simple and short words the stories of children who are away from

their homes.

Cast: Ali, Umair, Aamir, Waheed, Nawaz, Shakir

Workshop and Performances Facilitation: Imran Nafees

Mujhay Dar Lagta HaiChildren from Pahchaan (Organization)

Fridayth28 Jan6pm

Life plays tricks on a little boy who is just trying to sell

matchsticks on a very cold day but luck does not seems

to be on his side. Adapted from the famous Dutch poem,

The Little Match Stick Girl, this is a fascinating story of

fantasy and reality.

Writer: Mobeen Ejaz

Director: Mobeen Ejaz

Cast: Shaheer Murtaza, Musaaf, Armaghan, Irtiza, Saad, Jawad, Hamza Haider,

Hamza khalid, Moiz, Taqi Haider, Sardar Sachal

Production Incharge: Samreen Kapasi

Lights & Sounds: Samreen Kapasi, Tahir

Props, Costumes and Makeup: Samreen Kapasi, Kiran Dar, Mobeen Ejaz

Shadow Lights: Sohail, Sober, Anthony, Abid

Special Thanks to Sarah Zahid and Affan Alam

The Little Matchstick BoyLGS Johar Town (Junior) Friday

th28 Jan6pm

Closing Ceremony and Note of Thanks