Horror to invade PNCA

After watching this play I felt disturbed. It was a bad high school production at best. For a horror play one was horrified at the prospect that this could even fall in to the category of theatre. I felt like crying at the amateur story, bad dialogues and cliched characters. The characters reacted to the events around them in an unrealistic almost comedic manner. Thrice I wanted to get up and leave.
Also what disturbs me more is the response it got. If this is what people consider good theatre then I guess they deserve it. Or if people say it was a ‘good play’ when they don’t feel that it was then they are just reinforcing bad acting in other actors.
Very very disappointing. Recommend

I had heard so much about this play and Osman Khalid Butt that I was certain it would be an amazing experience. So much so that I convinced friends it was well worth the ticket price and boy was I disappointed. Where do I begin? The actors over reacting in the first twenty minutes. Butt himself writhing and heaving, when no one else was scared and nothing scary was happening, the audience laughing at the actors. Strange light effects in the background implying that a character just got killed. Bad, bad annoying accents. A mix of actors ranging from loud to inaudible. Pointless characters cluttering the stage. Shallow, undefined characters referring to plot-lines that haven’t been exposed.

And all of it lifted right off the Mist while being billed as being ‘inspired’ by three of Stephen King’s stories. And all I see in the press are rave reviews.

To be fair this wasn’t the worst play Islamabad has seen…oh, no….this city has seen much worse. But with so much pomp and show, you expect at least a piece of good writing, and I’m sorry, there was nothing ‘dramatic’ about this play. It was just another case of someone trying to perform a movie on stage. I am enraged, there was nothing interesting or entertaining about this play, no matter how much you try to highlight the subtext and the ‘relevance to the current situation in our country’. A bad, boring play is just that.

I’m sorry if this hurts someone’s feelings but we spent five thousand rupees on this play, mostly because we were assured by the great reviews on facebook, and even worse in the local papers! that this was a must watch which is why I just had to air my views.

Sofia Mir was brilliant, Ahmed Ali was pretty good too. Other actors weren’t bad, but didn’t seem to have much to work with. The set was nice, and the light effects were brilliant. The sound coming on and off abruptly made you wish it hadn’t been there in the first place. Recommend

Thank god someone is being honest! I’ve only read good things so far and i was like ‘whaaaaaa?’ Am I loosing my mind or was that play reaaallly crappy. Rock on Tribune…… for letting people speak their minds. Recommend