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: Aadhaar
Name of the college : Motilal Nehru College (Morning)
Synopsis of the play:
Often, a play has no story, but this is the story of a play, which is being created by the actor or
The play ends with the actor understanding that the actor is creating the play.
Can art and artists be coincided or does one has to pave the way for the other to
thrive?
An ode to desire, a beautiful watch on the heart’s endless longing for love,
passion, and wanting. It explores the universal state of human contradiction.
The plot follows how the love between Viyaan and Ramya struggles to
survive amidst the chaos of their individual lives.
Ramya, a college girl trying to forge a life of her own, is an image-conscious
and self-conscious girl, living in her head most of the time. Viyaan, a young
thespian and a budding writer, has some prejudices and beliefs with which
he does not agree with others, including his fellow thespian and friend,
Ronit. They sometimes land in heated arguments, where their brotherly
bond unfolds.
The play not only touches themes like love, departure, and connection, but
also deep dives into absurd spaces when ensemble characters highlight
issues such as how living a monotonous life with no choice feels, how writing
for oneself is a privilege, but authors have to write for their lives and still do
not get much of what they deserve, and how giving up on one’s passion
makes you a subject of the inmates of responsibility.
The play also has an anthropomorphic character, the Diary, who walks, talks,
analyses, and advises. Just like a fairy tale, it is a diary tale, expressing a full
range of human emotions, including loyalty, friendship,sympathy and
empathy.
The play unfolds how the couple lands in a state of despairing and desolate
situations and explores the unsettling nature of grief and jealousy in love.
Trigger warning: Photosensitive Epilepsy
