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: Shunya
Name of the college : Ramjas College
Synopsis of the play:
Heart Lamp is a realistic stage play that explores fragile inner lives of women in the domestic space, the play examines how individuals carry unspoken wounds, moral dilemmas and how it shape their choices, this usual household story weaves and questions through a differently structured convos, silence and restrained conflicts, and reflects on how love, memory & coexist with helplessness.
Heart Lamp is a story of a muslim women Mehrun, who is trapped inside a loveless marriage and her existence is reduced to responsibilty. She try to seek refuge at her parents but instead all she gets is a consel to endure and adapt to it. Though outwardly submissive, Mehrun carries suppresed pain and an unspoken longing for dignity & emotional recognition enduring all these, when Mehrun decides to kill herself, she gets an unexpected hope from her elder daughter to live her life again. Here the lamp in title represents a hope to live a life again despite of all the circumstances that we get to have in one`s life. The play exposes how patriarchy glorifies just through everyday tea conversation, desires and what not . This play is in Hindi and Urdu that gets audience into more proximity. Carrying the major themes of emotional realism, grief and subtle drama that gets easily relatable and not only cultivate their intent of entertainment but seeks to engage the audience in quiet introspection, asking whether one protects the flame within or allows it to dim under social pressure.
