"CHOOLAH" (Stove)

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March - 1989 (Lahore)


Written by: Shahid Nadeem
Directed by: Madeeha Gauhar

The play is based on a day in a house wife’s life in the kitchen. Although the play focuses on the so called stove deaths in the circumstances which lead to suicide by desperate wives or pre-meditated murders by the in-laws, it also addresses issues such as relationship between a daughter-in-law and mother-in-law, a wife and a husband, a maid and a house wife and between a mother and a son. The incident of a stove death takes place off stage in another house in the neighborhood. Zubeda the main character of the play is a precipice to challenge her insensitive husband. The play was adapted into a telefilm “CHOOLAH AUR CHAR DEEWARI” which was shown on NTM channel in March, 1998.

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Review: (newspaper)