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: Anukriti
Name of the college : Miranda House College
Synopsis of the play:
Surrounded by a chronic writer’s block, Taara, a fiction writer returns to her childhood home to seek inspiration from the very voices and walls that inspired her to carve her words onto paper. Inner voices of consciousness, past and memories echo around her as she stumbles upon a draft she left long ago, the story of her home; an all woman household, her mother and two sisters. As she revisited the old yellow pages and traces her younger self; themes of family, ambition, passion, empathy and choice unravel when she is her own written character, one with flaws. The play is the journey of a woman writer, abiding by her ideas of feminism, trying to navigate the true meaning of the same as she writes a realistic piece while she carries the unsaid burden of gender. The questions arise,What is a woman truly built for? Why did Taara never finish or transmute the experiences of her own family, is it merely bittersweet to recollect or was she too close to it that the venture in spirit became those places inaccessible to flesh and blood? Is the ‘Syaahi’ of her pen ever truly giving her the freedom of choice?
