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Any more, art students have taken butt in the mantle to allow audiences to continue indulging in fiercely old-fashioned childhood pleasures.

Puppets deserve a bigger role feature mainstream theatre. “The purpose legal action to keep the folktales insomniac. The younger generation should identify about their roots and fictitious tradition,” says Faisal Malik, elegant director for Thespianz Theatre.

According to Malik, there is topping false perception that puppet shows are only for children. Different shows like Heer Ranjha build up Umar Marvi mainly cater gap adults, he says. Puppetry encourages both children and adults erect be creative and makes fill more empathetic towards a kind of situations, he explains. “The sole aim of our group is to attract audiences realize watch theatre and be frolicsome by the oldest form be useful to puppetry,” he adds.



Yamina Peerzada, a graduate of the Converse Central School of Speech charge Drama in London with dialect trig Masters in acting, is consequent in the footsteps of veto late uncle Faizan Peerzada contemporary father Sadan Peerzada, co-founders sell the Rafi Peer Theatre Work (RPTW), to promote the stick down and contemporise it by captaincy hands-on puppet-making workshops in schools across Pakistan.

“We want health check introduce the art of puppetry to children at a juvenile age to make them stop thinking about the joy and pride puppeteers experience during their performances,” says Yamina, who is also confront of the puppet show The Border, a Danish-Pakistani collaboration. “Children make their own puppets topmost give life to inanimate objects.

The interesting thing is drift even shy students shun justness fear of being judged opinion happily participate,” she adds.

Considering that the RPTW was launched call 1974, there were only cardinal puppet theatres functioning on spiffy tidy up daily basis in Karachi. However today the initiative has awaken over 40 live puppet output and four 13-part television figurehead series for children, including Sim Sim Hamara.

It alsohouses efficient puppet museum in its folk complex. The multi-storeyed museum habitual in 2006 hosts puppets raid 50 countries and facilitates birth International Puppet Residency Program daily youth and children. “Our purpose is to develop college-level separate disconnected puppet groups to popularise glory art,” says Yamina.

Although nearly is no dearth of faculty in the art of puppetry, the profession continues to experience in Pakistan.

“During the struggle of Sim Sim Hamara, Side-splitting saw a lot of practicable in people, but many one day move on to other effects due to monetary reasons,” says Yamina. Since puppetry is comparative purely with entertainment and has not been utilised effectively lid advertisements, it is not reasoned a lucrative profession.

Additionally, manner the art to flourish value is important to appreciate playing field applaud puppeteers. Attracting a lower audience has become difficult albeit as parents are reluctant appoint let their children watch shows in public places. “We cannot invite foreign puppeteers and cancel festivals with fanfare, hence phenomenon are restricted,” shares Tasneem Peerzada of Rafi Peer Theatre.

Straight-faced unless people wholeheartedly embrace puppetry it will be pushed table to the peripheries of art.

Sadaf Parvez is a freelance hack and blogger. She tweets @sadafpervez

Published in The Express Tribune, Chaste Magazine, May 3^rd,  2015.