About The Event
A comic glove-puppet whodunnit created and directed by Anurupa Roy uses dark humour and disappearing suspects to probe justice, guilt, and the unsettling ease of public judgment today.
What do justice, guilt, and public judgment look like when everyone is both a potential suspect and a self-appointed jury? Created and directed by Anurupa Roy and written by Anamika Mishra, Orange Juice: A Glove Puppet Thriller draws inspiration from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, reshaping the classic whodunnit into a sharply comic glove-puppet performance where felt, foam, and mischief carry unexpected weight.
As characters disappear one by one, so do easy notions of consequence and control. The pleasures of a murder mystery remain, but moral certainty slips quietly away.
Set against the backdrop of our hyper-visible world, the work reflects a culture shaped by constant scrutiny and instantaneous judgment. Opinions race ahead of context; accountability is immediate, uneven, and often selective. Everyone is watching, everyone is judging, no one stands entirely outside the frame. Within this shifting landscape, the performance probes vigilante justice, public punishment, and the uneasy line between responsibility and retribution.
Performed by Anurupa Roy, BV Shrunga, and Anirban Ghosh (Baan G), with puppets by Mohammad Shameem, lighting by Manish Kumar, and an original score by Anirban Ghosh, Orange Juice crafts a theatrical language that is playful in form yet unsettling in implication. Co-Produced by Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust and W.I.P Labs, the show uses glove puppetry to hold up a dark comic mirror to the ways judgment is passed, shared, and performed in our times.
