All the World's a Stage
Stories told out loud, to a room.
No camera between the teller and the told.
No edit.
No second take.
Just a story, a room, and the people inside it.
Orwell wrote it as a fable about power — who takes it, how they keep it, and the language they use to explain why it had to be that way.
This retelling brings it into Hindi, and onto a stage.
Told rather than staged.
Performed solo at BFC Studio, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, on 11 July 2026.
Addebaazi at Sanatkada.
Performed by Valentina Trivedi and Nitin Sukhija.
Saturday 4 April 2026, 6:30 PM, at Lucknow Bioscope, 130 J.C. Bose Road, Qaiser Bagh, Lucknow — 226001.
Supported by Sanatkada Trust.
Adults only.
"Ek Chuhe Ki Maut" is a sharp, existential satire that explores how an oppressive, bureaucratic system strips a human being of their identity and dignity.
A collection of folk and mythological stories.
Why tell stories on stage?
Because there is something that happens when a story is told to a room and not to a camera.
The audience is there.
The silence is there.
The laugh is there.
And for a little while, the story belongs to everyone in the room.
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