Shahid Nadeem: theatre for social change

16th March 2010

 

ASIAN VOICES: INTERNATIONAL THEATRE SPECIAL

Shahid Naseem, playwright, director and founder member of Ajoka, a theatre for social change that was set up in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1984, talks to Suman Bhuchar about his uncompromising career, and the company’s history plays and political interventions. Recorded at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

History has been distorted by the Establishment, so we have to go back to history to understand where present-day problems originate.