About The Event
Dastaan Goi (storytelling) is perhaps the most ancient form of Urdu Theatre, written specifically to inform, entertain, and by its sometimes ambivalent ending to keep the
audience thirsting for more. The ancient Dastaans were tales of magic and mystery and followed a codified pattern of narration. In ‘Dastaan-e-Ashok-o-Akbar’ the writer Ashok Lal, while following the time honoured traditions of a Dastaangoi performance, weaves a tale of magic and mystery set in our times - replete with coincidences and gallantry, all with a distinctly utopian touch.
