Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) will stage a play presenting the challenges and life of persons with disabilities (PWDs) on 26 December (Monday).
The play titled “Hum Kar Saktay Hain” We Can Do” revolves around the life of a young girl with a disability and the challenges and hardships she faced at different levels in her life. The play shows that her life inspired other persons with disabilities and how they achieved their goals.
It also features social attitudes toward PWDs and the difficulties they face for their social inclusion. The play is a part of the PNCA’s series of street theater performances to bring forth issues related to PWDs, and social and environmental issues.
PNCA trains play participants
The participants of the play were trained in a 3-week theater workshop organized by CBM, Pak Women and Social Development in collaboration with PNCA to improve access to income-generating activities for young adults with and without disabilities in Islamabad and Rawalpindi’s selected low-income areas.
The main purpose of street theater is to create awareness of PWDs’ rights by presenting different stories. The young and budding actors and performing art lovers were guided in various workshops about the theoretical and practical acting steps.
Program Organizer and mentor Waqar Azeem told APP that PNCA, theater experts, and senior artists provided institutional support to theater lovers and street theater promotion.
He said that the acting course and training aimed to utilize the youth’s energy with a platform for exploring their abilities. It is also an attempt to bring forth the skills of budding artists. The training focused on the youth’s involvement in extracurricular activities and exploring their talent in the performing arts and healthy entertainment through expressions of art.
The trend of thoughtful and quality theater plays a very important role in underscoring and resolving the issues like training, education, and social problems.
