To be premiered at Shudrka Hyderabad’s own theatre festival, XPRESSION – Season 4, Kontho, Awaaz, Arupu: Unsilenced is a three-act play about power’s fear of knowledge. Rooted in the idea of "vidwesh"—hatred sustained through control, division, and silence—the work follows a teacher, a scientist, and a community whose language itself becomes forbidden. In each act, authority demands obedience not only from bodies, but from thought, reason, and speech.
Across time and space, the pattern remains the same: power fears those who question. A teacher insisting on logic is killed. A scientist is forced to deny truth. The final act explores a world where people are punished for speaking their own language.
The play refuses a fixed geography or historical period, allowing audiences to recognize their own realities within it. Breaking away from the proscenium form, the production transforms the audience seating area into the stage, implicating spectators within the machinery of surveillance, control, and resistance.
Duration:
90 minutes
Language
Multilingual
Credits:
On stage: Yeshaswini, Tanvitha, Monalisa, Sanchoyita, Anadeep, Yeshwant, Srivatsa, Bhanu, Soumyodeep, Barnali, Souravi, Sohini & Swapan
Music: Barnali and Abhimonyu
Makeup: Debasish
Stage Design: Swapan
Light Design: Joydeep
Backstage: Shudrka Hyderabad Team
Adaptation and Direction: Swapan Mondal
Production: Shudrka Hyderabad
Event Venue
Rangbhoomi Spaces & Events:Hyderabad, Opposite Zonal Municipal Office, ALIND Employees Colony, Serilingampalle (M), Hyderabad, Telangana 500133, India
INR 300
