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Speaking Truth To Power: The Revolutionary Potential Of Theatre

Speaking Truth To Power: The Revolutionary Potential Of Theatre

by The Daily Eye Team November 30 -0001, 12:00 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secs

Soho theatre’s pop-up soapbox inspired a raft of brief yet pointed speeches. The project’s 2017 tour of London venues couldn’t come at a better time The downstairs space at Soho theatre in London normally plays host to comedy gigs, but a few months ago it hosted a very different kind of standup night. Ordinary people stood up to be counted with brief speeches in which they spoke passionately about something important to them that they believed should be important to all of us.

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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