Shah Sharabeel: Make way for ‘Tom, Dick, Harry’
The play will be hitting the Karachi stage for the first time on January 25.
KARACHI:
After hits like “Moulin Rouge” and “Bombay Dreams”, director Shah Sharabeel is back with his latest production “Tom, Dick and Harry”, an adaptation of the famous comedy of the same name by Ray Cooney and his son Michael. The play has been earlier performed in Lahore and Islamabad and will be hitting the Karachi stage for the first time on January 25.
The cast of the play includes students from different schools and colleges of the city, who have been selected through an audition.
“Karachi has always been a favourite market of all the theatre producers and directors and that is why we’re so excited about this play,” Assistant Director Javed Ahmed Saaedi told The Express Tribune. Saeedi is of the opinion that though plays like “Tom, Dick and Harry” and “Moulin Rouge” were initially performed in Lahore and Islamabad, it is Karachi that excites theatre practitioners the most. “People in Karachi know more about these foreign plays and are, in general, more appreciative of such ventures than the audience in Lahore,” he adds.
The play revolves around the lives of three brothers Tom, Dick and Harry, and builds on the characters’ misunderstandings of each others’ actions and motives. The adaptation is in English, however some local elements have been added to adapt it for the Pakistani audience. “There is a small surprise for the audience as well but that will only be unveiled on stage,” states Saaedi mysteriously.
Let’s hope that the surprise is worth the wait. The play will run daily till February 12 at 8pm at the Karachi Arts Council.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2012.
After hits like “Moulin Rouge” and “Bombay Dreams”, director Shah Sharabeel is back with his latest production “Tom, Dick and Harry”, an adaptation of the famous comedy of the same name by Ray Cooney and his son Michael. The play has been earlier performed in Lahore and Islamabad and will be hitting the Karachi stage for the first time on January 25.
The cast of the play includes students from different schools and colleges of the city, who have been selected through an audition.
“Karachi has always been a favourite market of all the theatre producers and directors and that is why we’re so excited about this play,” Assistant Director Javed Ahmed Saaedi told The Express Tribune. Saeedi is of the opinion that though plays like “Tom, Dick and Harry” and “Moulin Rouge” were initially performed in Lahore and Islamabad, it is Karachi that excites theatre practitioners the most. “People in Karachi know more about these foreign plays and are, in general, more appreciative of such ventures than the audience in Lahore,” he adds.
The play revolves around the lives of three brothers Tom, Dick and Harry, and builds on the characters’ misunderstandings of each others’ actions and motives. The adaptation is in English, however some local elements have been added to adapt it for the Pakistani audience. “There is a small surprise for the audience as well but that will only be unveiled on stage,” states Saaedi mysteriously.
Let’s hope that the surprise is worth the wait. The play will run daily till February 12 at 8pm at the Karachi Arts Council.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 20th, 2012.