The Playlist. A collaboration (Germany/Pakistan)

NAPA INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
THE PLAYLIST.  A collaboration (GERMANY/PAKISTAN)  
With Goethe-Institut Pakistan
With Support of the International co-production fund of the Goethe Institute, Be Global funding and NAPA

Sunday, 31st March,1st & 2nd April  2019
8:00 - 10:00 pm sharp

Tickets: Rs. 600
No children under 14

The US Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's torture methods in American prison camps (Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram etc.), published in the year 2014, shook the world with its horrific and inhumane descriptions of torture at these camps. One of the most bizarre things that the report revealed was that music was used as a means of torture at these camps. Prisoners were made to listen to American pop songs (there was a proper playlist that was used at all prison camps) played on a loop and at extremely high volume. A lot of prisoners said that this was the worst form of torture they went through. 

THE PLAYLIST is a musical production that is part investigation and part meditation on this abuse of music and human body and soul.