Ithaca College

Theatre Wallay, an Islamabad-based theatre company, will be in residence on campus the week of October 26 to present the original piece Dagh Dagh Ujala (This Stained Dawn). Dagh Dagh Ujala was created out of interviews with survivors of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.

Theatre Arts professor Kathleen Mulligan's sabbatical project "Voices of Partition" is a collaboration between Mulligan, theatre director David Studwell, alumna Sarah Morrisette (Hebert-Johnson)'13, and the members of Theatre Wallay in Islamabad. Theatre Wallay members spent several months interviewing survivors of the partition of 1947 in villages and cities across the Punjab region of Pakistan. Mulligan and Morrisette traveled to Islamabad in January of 2015 and worked with company members to fashion original monologues out of the collected interviews. Mulligan returned to Islamabad in April with husband David Studwell to weave together these monologues into a 70 minute theatre piece. The production Dagh Dagh Ujala opened in Islamabad in late April, toured to Lahore in May, and will begin its US tour in Boston in October 2015. Ithaca College performances will be in the Clark Theatre on Friday October 30 (8PM) and Saturday October 31 (2PM and 7PM). Admission is free, but donations are requested for "141 Schools", an organization committed to building one school for every child killed in the Peshawar massacre of December 2014. (http://www.141schools.org/) For ticket reservations please email thisstaineddawnusatour@gmail.com. Include name, performance choice, and number of tickets requested.

"Voices of Partition" is funded through generous support of the U.S. Embassy-Islamabad, The Fulbright Commission, and Ithaca College.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Kathleen Mulligan at kmulligan@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3927. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.