Independent Theatre Pakistan

We provide a platform for aspiring young artists with a focus on Pakistani values and creating cross cultural dialogue.

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Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Meryl Streep

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You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

Aphra Behn, The Emperor of the Moon. a Dialogue-Pantomime; With Alterations, and the Addition of Several Airs, Duets, and Choruses, Selected    

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I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Victor Hugo

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And all that jazz

Chicago the Musical, Broadway

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Act without expectation.

Lao Tzu

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The audiences are very much a part of the play. They respond as and when they feel like showing their appreciation.

Shahid Nadeem, during interview on ‘Dara’

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I am a postmodernist when it comes to understanding “truth”—I believe its always about perception rather than a fixed absolute, and certainly memoir is kin to fiction in regards to the notion of truth, whether the truth presented is historical or personal. In fact, all we have in any kind of writing, however “objective” it may claim to be—are representations of truth-claims, highly mediated and never transparent. Thus, the notion that any one account or person can be “representative” of a complex agglomeration of people, of multilayered cultures, is nonsense.

Fawzia Afzal-Khan, writer of ‘A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan’

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I don't believe an actor can become a character.

Naseeruddin Shah

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The theatre is traditionally where people go to hear the truth.

David Mamet

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An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Lawrence Barrett

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A new star has been born and Vera’s performance brings alive the desolate life of O’Neil’s young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.

Rajiv Kapoor, Lights: Despair, Faith, and Hope on Broadway    

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Never tell the truth about an amateur show.

Leslie McFarlane

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The text is your greatest enemy.

Sanford Meisner, Sanford Meisner on Acting    

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Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramatic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurrences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, political intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly    

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The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Seán O’Casey