Did you know? NAPA to stage Michael Cooney’s Cash on Delivery

It will be staged at the NAPA auditorium from 11 — 28 September (Thursday to Sunday).

After a brief but successful run of William Shakespeare’s ‘A Winter’s Tale’ as Fasana-e-Ajaaib, National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) is all set for their next theater production. An urdu adaptation of Michael Cooney’s farcical play ‘Cash on delivery’, Sau Din Chor Kay has been translated by Babar Jamal while Uzma Sabeen is going to direct the play.

According to the Facebook page of the play, it is a farce centred on Aamir who has been defrauding for two years by claiming benefit for an army of fictitious lodgers, all of whom suffer from a variety of ailments for which they can claim the benfits.

The play begins when Aamir finds it all getting too complicated and tries to extricate himself by killing off his make-believe tenants. The first call he makes is to inform the council that one of his creations, Irshad (the painter) has died. He is interrupted by the real life Irshad who really is Aamir’s lodger, but has no idea that Aamir is claiming benefits in his name.

When a few minutes later Inspector Nadeem comes around to see another one of the fictitious claimants Irshad gets sucked into Aamir’s web of deceit.

The play stars Hammad Sartaj , Hasan Raza, Ishtiaq Rasool , Farhan Alam , Maha Ali and Erum basher to name a few and will be staged at the NAPA auditorium from 11 — 28 September (Thursday to Sunday).

Published in The Express Tribune, September 7^th, 2014.

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