Sarmad Khoosat’s live performance, No Time To Sleep, gives a harrowing and deeply disturbing account of the last 24 hours in a death row prisoner’s life. This will go down in history as his most challenging performance ever.

In a groundbreaking production for Pakistan and perhaps the world, a 24-hour live performance was streamed to raise awareness on a social issue with rising importance: the capital punishment. No Time to Sleep, performed immaculately by the formidable Sarmad Khoosat, was a collaboration between human rights group Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), the Dawn Media Group and Olomopolo. The play was based on a real convict – Zulfiqar Ali Khan – who spent more than 15 years on death row for a crime he denied he committed; he was convicted for the death of a taxi driver, which was an act of self-defense. Zulfiqar spent much of his time educating more than 400 fellow prisoners and himself earning dozens of degrees and certifications. He was executed on May 6, 2015″