LITERATURE REVIEW:-

Language is a tool which reflects our culture and society. Thus the trilateral relationship of language, culture and society is very important. Language used in commercial theatres is quite different from the one used in non-commercial theatres. Commercial theatres in Pakistan have become a source of generating income and they are not addressed for real entertainment of the masses, while on the other hand non-commercial theatres are more focused towards entertainment of the public. Unfortunately research in this topic has been very limited. Research conducted before has made it clear that language used in our commercial theatres is vulgar and offensive. A research by a renowned linguist and Professor at Lahore School of Economics Dr Shahid Siddiqui in his article in DAWN “Gender Representation in Films and Theatres” reveals that commercial theatres are a source of promoting vulgarity and obscenity. Dr Shahid Siddiqui further says elaborating the type of language used in commercial theatres “The language of theatre plays is usually so obscene that they can hardly make for family entertainment.” One thing is clear from the above lines that culture represented in our commercial theatres does not resemble our original Pakistani culture. Non-commercial theatres such as Ajoka and others held by different drama societies in universities and colleges are somewhat more related to our Pakistani culture and the language used in them is decent. Claire Pamment an Assistant Professor at Beacon House University has agreed to this point that non-commercial theatres are true representative of Pakistani culture as compared to commercial theatres. Still so many flaws related to commercial theaters of Pakistan, a lot of people, mostly male, like to watch plays and dramas at such theatres. Thus in other words it would be easy to say that commercial theatres are male dominated and this is also expressed by Huma Safdar in her article “The Representation of Women in Commercial Theatre”. She says “Self-seeking individualism is articulated in a myriad ways to maintain the dominance of one group or class over another or the dominance of men as a class over women as a class.”