An arts academy, at last

'Mohyeddin reminisces that as director of the PIA Arts Academy in the early Seventies, he was asked to set up a national theatre. "I told the government that it is not like setting up the National Ghee Corporation. You can only have a national theatre when you have theatre. The National Theatre in England came about just 50 years ago, after theatrical activity had existed there for nearly 700 years, if not more." ' Read the full story.