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William Skakespeare's

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Night's Dream

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Set Design : Jameel Afridi Music : Arshad Mehmood & Nafees Ahmed

Directed and Translation by : Khalid Ahmed 

Starting from 2nd April till 11th April 2010 daily at 8:00 PM evening  at ARTS Council Auditorium.

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Napa Repertory Theatre

This Theatre whole cause is to promote professionalism in Theatre. If in our society the theatre becomes a norm it will then create / bring Professional Writers. Drama / theatre still not getting what it really deserved in our society as mean of entertainment. so our concise is also lacking and for that we still can't touched those topics which are marvelous in Literary Art.

To this cause Repertory will bring that theatre and this is our challenge as well from us ... we want to do Translations of some best known Literally work and to prepare it for Theatre Stage ... Napa already started work in this regard and we want to materialize this into reality soon.

In Past two Years NRT Give this city 12 new plays and in current year we tend to continue our performances and for the fiscal year this is our First Play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for you audience which is translated and directed by KHALID AHMED.

Starting from 2nd April till 11th April 2010 at ARTS Council Auditorium.

if you become "friend" of this theatre then you will be invited in every new production as our honored guest.
To become Friend "Form" is attached inside this booklet.

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About the Play...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

The Drama's Translation which also includes Songs also has done by Khalid Ahmed and he is Directed this play as well and we believe that this Drama will be liked by Audience.

From Rahat Kazmi  

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The Producer 
Khalid Ahmed
Started his career as an Engineer and done his masters in Engineering from University of California Davis after completing his Masters he started teaching in N.E.D University Karachi and for years he worked in eduction but his Interest to theater continues to build up, as time gradually passed He finally  feels that this is not his 'cup of tea' so he decided to quit Teaching taken a decision to learn to become a professional Actor for that he went to London academy of Music & Dramatic Arts(LAMDA).

After Coming back from London he devoted his self completely for Theater and Drama and from that moment to very till his devotion to theater is remarkably APPLAUSIBLE. Although For the past few years he involve more in Production and acting for Television but that too did not deter him from Theater and his passion and love for Theater is still thriving . For Women Cause he Directed many Drama's and acted in various plays as well.

From 2005 he is associated with Napa Theater Teaching  Faculty and as Producer / Director his theater List  included  "The Master Builder", "Sultan ka Faisala" and "Manto" 


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Characters:

 (Tabraiz ---> Lord of City ----> Syed Adnan Jaffar) - (Razmina---> Fiancee of Lord ---> Farheen Adnan) - (Ajiz---> City's Respectable Person *Harmia's Father*---> Nazar Ul Hasan) - (Harmia--->Beloved of Sikandar--->Mehwish Siddiqui) - (Alina--->Beloved of Taimor--->Mahreen Rafi) - (Sikandar--->Beloved of Harmia--->Zain Ul Abideen) - (Taimoor--->Son of City's Respectable--->Inam Ul Hasan) - (Faizan--->Tabraiz Bodyguard--->Nazar Ul Hasan) - (Gulfam--->King of Fairies--->Mustafa Afridi) - (Gulnar---> Queen of Fairies--->Aiman Tariq) - (Pik--->Salve of Gulfam--->Mohsin Ali Shah) - (Fairies: Gulbo--->Shaista Qazi, Chambaili--->Farah Naz, Champa--->Bushra Kunwal & Albaili--->Nighat Chuudhary) - (Peter Babu--->Local School Teacher--->Farhan Ali Shah) - (Painda--->Paan Seller--->Tanveer Abbas) - (Murli--->Iron Smith--->Mubashir Nazar Naqvi) - (Mohan--->Pottery Maker---> Muhammad Akhtar) - (Dilbar--->Tailor--->Saqib Sumair) - (Rangbaz--->Rangraiz--->Shan Muhammad) - (Small Child--->Baby Ashita)

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Produced by : Khalid Ahmed Support : Akbar Islam Decoration : Jameel Afridi Support : Tanveer Abbas Music : Arshad Mehmood and Nafees Ahmed Support : Ahsan Bari Stage Manager : Akbar Islam Costumes : Aiman Tariq Lights : Zain Ahmed Support : Hassan Photography : Qaisar Muhammad Saim

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Membership form

The privileges of being a member include continuous update through news letter, email etc: of booking your seats online via our website and seeing our plays as our guests, on the day of your choice*. Also, for you invitees you would be entitled to buy tickets at 10% discount. and you will, of course, be invited to all our student performances-dramatic as well as musical.

. if, by any chance, the night you want to see the play has been sold out, we will accommodate you on an alternate night 

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Napa Repertory Theatre Company

M.R. Kiyani Road, Karachi-Pakistan. Tel: 021 5693701-3 Fax: 021-5693705

E-mail: info@napa.org.pk Website: www.napa.org.pk

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