Independent Theatre Pakistan

Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

And all that jazz

Act without expectation.

The audiences are very much a part of the play. They respond as and when they feel like showing their appreciation.

I am a postmodernist when it comes to understanding “truth”—I believe its always about perception rather than a fixed absolute, and certainly memoir is kin to fiction in regards to the notion of truth, whether the truth presented is historical or personal. In fact, all we have in any kind of writing, however “objective” it may claim to be—are representations of truth-claims, highly mediated and never transparent. Thus, the notion that any one account or person can be “representative” of a complex agglomeration of people, of multilayered cultures, is nonsense.

I don't believe an actor can become a character.

The theatre is traditionally where people go to hear the truth.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

A new star has been born and Vera’s performance brings alive the desolate life of O’Neil’s young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.

Never tell the truth about an amateur show.

The text is your greatest enemy.

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramatic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurrences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, political intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.