The White Plague

FEATURE LENGTH PLAY (2023)

120m *Satire *Comedy *Drama

Belgium-France-Luxemborg-Pakistan co-production

Synopsis: A superpower is gearing to start its next all-out offensive war while the world is being ravaged by a mysterious pandemic, the White Plague that no one has the cure for. A doctor from the slums discovers the vaccine and is willing to give it for free to the world leaders, but on one condition… 

Directed and adapted by: Meher Jaffri
Produced by: Bodhi Works
Co-Producer: The Art’s Council Pakistan
Originally commissioned by: Zia Mohyeddin (The National Academy of Performing Arts)

All shows are dedicated to the memory of the late Zia Mohyeddin

Original Cast:
Fawad Khan
Saad Zameer
Samhan Ghazi
Abdul Rahman
Manal Siddiqui
Raana Kazmi

The White Plague Reviews

Successful pre-premiere of the Czech play “The White Plague: in Karachi in Urdu

Embassy of the Czech Republic, Islamabad

A case of crowd’s madness under spell of populist narrative”

The News

Director Meher Jaffri has set the tone of the game, you don’t know how two and a half hours pass in it. The pace of the dialogues, acting, and transitions between scenes has been done so skilfully that the audience is entertained throughout. Laughing, we go through the complexities of humanity that we are all too familiar with but find difficult to put into words.

Intesab-e-Khushbu