About The Event
ACT Season 16
(February 22-28, 2026)
Various Venues in Delhi/NCR
The 16th edition of ACT – Atelier Campus Theatre Festival marks not just another year of performances but a reaffirmation of what theatre truly stands for: community, collaboration, and collective expression. ACT embraces the spirit of celebration—a celebration of voices, dissent, identities, stories, and the transformative power of coming together.
Atelier’s ACT Festival aka "Atelier’s Campus Theatre" Festival is the World’s Largest Campus Theatre fiesta. Started in 2007, this festival has witnessed more than 800 performances in the last 15 seasons.
In Season 16, we aim to achieve a bigger, better and diverse this year, from February 22-28, 2026.
Festival Curator
Kuljeet Singh
Festival Director
Mansi Grover
Festival Manager
Manjot Singh
Festival Advisor
Gaurav Suri
Name of the group: The Ariels
Name of the college : Miranda House
Synopsis of the play:
Victim. Perpetrator. Bystander. The suffering empath whose screams reach deaf ears, the chronicled saviour failing to save her, and the manipulative witness silently fanning the flames of sabotage. Facets of a woman dangling at the edge of suicide. The clock strikes 4:47, impending doom. Welcome to the psychotic`s mind - a landscape marred by grief, depression, medications, abuse, confessions, longing, loathing, and something even bitter - rage. At the world for its crooked and callous ways, at herself for existing, at the doctors who whisper sweet nothings while they treat her as a laboratory experiment. In this suspended time, the mind replays memories fractured through altered perception, compressing a lifetime of thoughts and feelings into a single unendurable instant. The clock strikes 4:48, the minute she has vowed to kill herself, the minute where absolute clarity descends and the chaos of existing briefly crystallizes into unbearable lucidity. The doom no longer pends. 4.48 Psychosis is an unflinching journey intertwined in a fragmented text that shuns any sort of structure to exist as provoking monologues, dread filled dialogues and clinical list of symptoms, confronting the audience with the stark realities of mental illness, while revealing flashes of humanity or the dearth of it.
Trigger warning: Self harm, substance abuse, suicidal intention, use of strobe lighting
