SAHIWAL, Oct 22: Punjab Lok Rahs, a non-commercial street theatre group, concluded a three-day theatre workshop at Comsat University in Sahiwal on Wednesday.

Twenty-seven students attended the workshop wherein trainer Qaisar Abbas demonstrated a theatre exercises, ‘mirror and mime’ besides lecturing the other aspects of theater.

He said the workshop was part of a Punjab Lok Rahs’ training programme for seven universities in Punjab to develop students’ dramatic societies.

“The programme will develop and flourish purposeful and meaningful theatre among the youth,” he said.

"Theater has to be institutionalised in universities so that the youth’s creativity can be groomed,” he said. University teacher Mariyum said that theatrical exercises would enhance students’ creative and aesthetic abilities.

Punjab Lok Rahs has staged 51 plays and some 500 performances in both urban and rural areas, all in Punjabi language, in the last 22 years.

Last year, Lok Rahs conducted 10 theatre workshops with university students.