By Shiroma Silva

“Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself,” said Regan of her father. It’s a sentiment that comes through clearly about the central character in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production of King Lear. Playing the traditional old man who gets madder as the play progresses, Greg Hicks depicts the ageing King as a character who, though lost in madness, has a self-taunting self-reflective quality.

By Zainab Rahim

Any story that allows children to take household matters into their own hands, beat their bullying headteacher and obtain magical powers to their advantage is bound to strike a chord with many a regular child.

By Anwar Akhtar

The Samosa is supporting Photo Encounter Pakistan, an initiative by DawnRelief aimed at raising funds for Pakistan’s flood-affected people. The exhibition will feature more than 300 pictures by Pakistan’s top photographers including Arif Ali, Umair Ghani, Ayesha Vellani, Tapu Javeri, Pervaiz A Khan, Arif Mahmood and Mahmood Qureshi at the RAG factory in East London.

By Kalsoom Lakhani

Last week, I attended a screening of Slackistan, an independent film by director Hammad Khan. The film, which premiered in London, Abu Dhabi, New York City, and San Francisco [Pakistan screenings are coming soon], was recently described by the NY Times as, “a pitch-perfect comedy about restless youths in Islamabad,” and is a raw embodiment of 20-something angst, superficiality, and existential musings about life. As someone who grew up in “the city that always sleeps,” Slackistan was – ironically - a very real treatment of Islamabad’s detached reality.