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: LSR Dramsoc
Name of the college : Lady Shri Ram College For Women
Synopsis of the play:
At the heart of the play is Chitraangada, or Chitra, a 33-year-old woman navigating what appears to be a typical marriage. In the midst of the bulauwa, Chitra receives a phone call: her husband has died in a train crash. She does not announce the news. Instead, she withdraws, entering a private space of shock and solitude. In that silence grief begins to shift. What first feels like loss slowly opens into revelation: an intoxicating awareness of freedom and the possibility of a life unbound. For the first time, Chitra experiences herself outside the role of a wife. She notices the world differently: its beauty, its openness, its promise. When she returns to the bulauwa, Chitra dances in release and not mourning. The gathering misreads her joy as celebration and joins in, unaware of the transformation unfolding beneath the music. At the height of the moment, her husband enters alive. The phone call was a mistake. Chitra is left standing at the threshold of freedom, only to be pulled back into the life she has known for years. The play ends by turning a question toward the audience: can marriage, as we know it, ever be equal? And can a woman ever truly exist outside the structures built around her?
