Presented by Bakhtawer Khurshid to Madam Naima Bilal who encourages Muslim writers and Pakistani dramas.This drama is written by Usman Ali .Its is inspired by A Dog . Purpose of writing this is to provoke sense of literature among people.

1. Presentation to Madam Naima
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN
LANGUAGES, LAHORE CAMPUS.
Presented by:
Bakhtawer Khurshid & Imran Talib. (MA Eng SEM2 Eve)

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3. About author.
 It’s a three act play written by him.
 Author was born in
 Mandi Bahuaddin, Punjab 1978 Usman Ali completed his
M.phill in Literature from Punjab University Lahore.
 Ali wrote the dramatic scripts for Hamlets madness at British
Councils celebration of shakesphere’s birthday.
 He also wrote a script of an imagined interview with Robert
frost in 2001 and has his credit to an english translation of a
book of Gulzar The Speaking Silence.
 He is currently associated with University of Gujrat and
University of Sargodha.

4. Death
• It’s a poem written by Ted Hughes.
Poet starts the poem with a question about life, about how
paltry it is.He writes I am like a magnet of the universe and have
powers of death.Life indeed an aberration.Its a soul talking that
when I am alive in the body of a man he dies and when I am alive
in the body of the lady she dies.And now he is awake and
immoral.
Comparing and contrasting immortality.

5. Author’s Note:
• Couldn’t write a word from two months.
• No one had read The guilt.
• Characters of The guilt are dying because of not being heard.
• Fate of them that cant be changed.
• Drama starts by dissolving the shells of ego.
• Drama is intense than fiction or poetry.
• But The Guilt has not changed anything.
• People don’t understand the true intensity of drama and affects on a society in
general.
• Usman Ali had a dream about Mastana’s work results.
• Phone rang up, it was a student wanted to do thesis on his work but Usman Ali
hang up the phone because students in Pakistan do it for the sake of degrees
only.

6. .
Mandi Bahauddin to Gujrat.
• He heard sound of bone cracking in the bus.
• When the bus was on rest he saw it was a dog who was being
crushed by the van.
• Meanwhile another bus rolled over the face of the dog. Usman Ali
was shunned over there.
• He was full of guilt he sat down and started writing a drama this
time it is titled “ THE LAST METHPHOR” .

7. Why did Usman Ali wrote this ?
Audience was not understanding the characters and characters
were dying for not being heard. Characters were breathing their
last but the audience was invisible. Where is the audience?
Nobody knows. Things were going completely against the will of
the writer he wanted to write but things were not cooperating.
He wrote this to provoke people’s thoughts and vast their vision
and to call them back for theater’s sake. He knew people were
going away from literature and are more into Arts just to
complete their degrees.Usman Ali wanted to make people
realise that dramas keep the strength to change a society but
people are unable to recognize the perks of it and the sense of
society. He wants people to come to literature as it can be more
fruitful for the society.

8. Act 1:
• It starts with a room and severe cold weather.
• Entrance of Jugnoo on the stage.
• Jugnoo and his mask carrying a dead body rapped in a white sheet.
• In the beggning he doesn’t show his face to the audience.
• Banka enters.
• *Conversations*
• Afraid of the door knocks. On the second knock the come to know it was
an Electricity bill.
• Banka tells Jugnoo to be brave and break the wall of his fears people in
town call him runway and loser police is searching for him everywhere .
• Banka asks about the dead body buy Jugno doesn’t tell anything.

9. .• Police captures some boys in the street everyone out there
watching cheap theatre without curtains.
• Banka doing his regular hair and washings.
• He is watching the whole scenario while cutting hairs of his
cheeks gently.
• Banka starts telling about his art and robe and well profession.
• Knock at the door again
• Jugnoo takes out bottle of scent from his body and moves the
dead body.
• Banka goes to the kitchen and tell him about his father and
brother’s death.

10. Review:
Ali has a natural ability to describe human relations, at least the men in the
two plays I’ve read. In some ways they are distant to my life but I easily
recognize their humanity and their feelings. I think Ali lives in a society where
experience is immediate and direct, not mediated through technology and
gadgets. Ali has a working dramatic sense – the central relationship in The
Last Metaphor is the classical one that appears often in Western theater and
literature – Voltaire, Beckett, Candide, Bertie Wooster, Laurie and Hardy and
so on. I’m not saying Ali makes the same use of the relationship, but he gives
it a recognizable and usable foundation. What is important about Ali’s work is
the raw experience he describes. The raw experiences, the use of the dead
body, are the sort of things that stay in my mind. They seem to be part of Ali’s
strength. The main thing is Ali’s natural talent which is able to convey direct
experiences in a dramatic form.

11. Contact:
• Email : info@uosmandibahauddin.edu.pk
Phone # +92546-509120,+92546-626523, +92300-6028537,0347-4212932
• University of Sargodha Mandi Bahauddin Campus,
New Rasul Road Mandibahauddin.

12. Thank You!
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