The Goethe-Institut Pakistan on Monday hosted the GRIPS Theatre that performed a play for children “Unfit Ball Hai Duniya Meray Aagay.”
The play is an adaptation of a drama from GRIPS-Berlin and deals with the preservation of environment.
Featuring Faiza Kazi, Ameed Riaz, Aysha Sheikh, Hena Ameed, Khalifa Sajeeruddin, Maria Hosein Shaikh and Khaled Anam, the play parallels the Aesop fable “The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse” with an environmental twist.
It revolves around Chiya, who lives with her grandmother in the village of Gandpur. She is extremely passionate about the environment and her best friend is a tree in the village. When she moves to the city to live with her aunt and her cousins, she cannot fit in with the noise, pollution and fast food. She voices her concerns about the quality of food with pesticides and packaged foods, but is laughed off by her cousins who think her too naïve and stupid. Eventually, Chiya wins the kids over and together they convince their parents and teachers to protect the environment.
The play is full of fun, and sing-along songs written and composed by Khaled Anum in the true GRIPS tradition.
GRIPS-Theatre Pakistan was founded by writer Imran Aslam and director Yasmeen Ismail in 1980. The word “grips” in the North-German dialect means “ability to understand quickly”, a way of thinking that is fun and enjoyable. GRIPS is derived from the “Reichskabarett” of 1960s Berlin - a highly political cabaret for adults - that became the first children’s theatre to perform regularly. The ideology behind the original GRIPS was to change the society through education of children in a form they could easily understand that culminated in a highly entertaining, political and a slapstick drama.
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