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: Manchtantra
Name of the college : Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce
Synopsis of the play:
A woman is found dead in her apartment, killed in a manner disturbingly
familiar to the infamous Muse Killer. Sedated and bound to a chair, the crime
scene feels deliberately preserved. With no signs of forced entry and no
immediate answers, the case returns to a small investigative unit already
navigating uncertainty.
At the centre of the investigation stand two investigators, almost observers.
Divya, a forensic expert with an uncompromising eye for detail, searches for
meaning in overlooked fragments. Amrit, a crime scene photographer, records
everything in near silence, trusting moments reveal themselves only when held
still.
As patterns echo and evidence withholds itself, unease settles in. Certainty
erodes, and what begins as routine grows disquieting. Just as the case
threatens to unravel, word spreads of a new officer joining the team, an
outsider known for closing an impossible case. His arrival brings surprises,
suspense, and a tremor the investigation was never prepared for.
