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: Natuve
Name of the college : Shaheed Bhagat Singh Morning College
Synopsis of the play:
In the grand, shadow-veiled corridors of an opulent mansion, where every
smile conceals treachery and every silence hums with intent, Meher
enters as an unassuming housemaid in pursuit of a new beginning.Yet
beneath the burnished surfaces, a sinister darkness festers.
Tara endures the suffocating dominion of Dev, the powerful magnate who
dictates her every move and imprisons her ambition.Their union, dazzling
in public, is nothing but gilded shackles in private. Enchanted by Sharad,
the beguiling designer who appears to promise liberation, Tara begins to
savor the illusion of freedom. But Sharad’s charm is a masquerade, for
beneath his polished smile lurks a man ensnared by secrets of his own,
be it his veiled identity or the wife he cannot seem to escape.
As Meher unravels fragments of buried truths and Tara toys with peril, the
mansion itself transforms into a stage of treachery, where jealousy
sharpens into a blade, ambition curdles into blackmail, and love is a trap
set to kill.When lies collapse and blood stains the floor, the question is no
longer who possesses the greatest power, but who dares to deliver the
final blow as for in this ruthless game, even the survivors may not escape
alive.
Trigger warning: Gun and Violence
