The Last Metaphor A Three-Act Play By Usman Ali

Book Name
The Last Metaphor  A Three-Act Play
Author: Usman Ali
Publishers:  New Line Publishers
Publish Date: 2014
Edition: 1
Language. English
Category:  Medicine\\Dermatology
Book Code: 268
Pages 45
Rs 600
Book Quality Black Paper


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Ali's play opens another window for me. Usman Ali’s work straddles East and West (to use those two crude nouns). This is potentially useful in a world where cultures that were divided by space and time now live cheek by jowl, drawn together by the market and modern technology. This duality in Ali’s plays is potentially interesting and useful. 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 theatre 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 useable 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. Edward Bond

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Author: Usman Ali

Born in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab in 1978 Usman Ali did his M. Phil. in English literature from University of the Punjab, Lahore. His thesis was on Derek Walcott entitled The Function and Process of Filtration in Derek Walcott. Ali wrote the dramatic scripts for Hamlets Madness: Feigned or Real enacted at British Councils celebration of Shakespeares birthday. He also wrote a script for An Imagined interview with Robert Frost in 2001 and has to his credit an English translation of a book on Gulzar The Speaking Silence. He is currently associated with University of Gujrat & University of Sargodha....