Chirya Ghar (The Zoo Story by Edward Albee) - Audio Play

The Pakistan Experience · Jun 28, 2020 · 59m

Radio plays gained popularity a century ago. With all of us quarantined we are trying to revive the tradition by producing audio plays. The first of the series is Chirya Ghar, an urdu adaptation of the classic Edward Albee play, The Zoo Story. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world. In the adaptation, Pervaiz, a middle-aged affluent man, is sitting on a bench at a secluded area of Sea View, Karachi. Anjum, a man in his 20s, approaches him for a conversation. The audio play is a reading of the play. The…