‘The Mother’ makes you sit with the mess we call family
Presented by The Last Show at NAPA, the play refuses easy villains in a family falling apart KARACHI: It is rare to sit in a theater and completely forget that you are watching actors on a stage. Usually, you know the lights, the blocking, the performance. But once in a while, a project quietly pulls you in so deeply that you stop noticing the mechanisms altogether. The Mother, written and directed by Usama Khan, did just that for me. It was not based on spectacle or drama. It worked through emotional honesty. Adapted from Florian Zeller’s play of the same
