Motley Theatre Presents MANTO ISMAT HAZIR HAI, 3/31

This production, the second in Motley's intended series of presentations on stage of Hindustani short stories, centres around the word obscene. Two short stories Bu(Odour)by Saadat Hasan Manto, and Lihaaf(The Quilt) by Ismat Chughtai, for which the writers were, in the mid 1940's, accused of obscenity and put to trial by the Lahore High Court, will be presented along with Ismat Apa's account of the trial, called In the name of those married women and another celebrated Manto story The Dog of Titwal.

Prithvi Theatre
March
Wed 31, 06:00 pm, 09:00 pm

Motley :
Motley is a theatre group formed by Mr.Naseeruddin Shah along with Tom Alter & Benjamin Gilani in 1979.Since then, the group went on to produce several a number of magnificent plays in both Hindi and English and regularly toured the country as well as foreign shores to take their work to variegated audiences.

Cast :
Heeba Shah
Imran
Rakesh Chaturvedi
Ankur Vikal
Imaad Shah

Writer Sadaat Hasan Manto & Ismat Chugtai
Director Naseeruddin Shah.
Lights Michael Nazareth
Producer Jairaj Patil

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