Empty chairs, hanging mirrors, a burning pyre, water tubs- the stage seemed set for the visual spectacle that chronicled the infamous December 16 gangrape incident that hit the city in 2012.
'Nirbhaya: Breaking the Silence', a play based on the gruesome incident of a 23 year old student being brutally gangraped in a moving bus was staged in the capital recently to a packed audience.
The play also narrated the personal testimonies of the actors who were themselves victims of sexual violence.
Written and directed by the award-winning playwright, Yael Farber, Nirbhaya was premiered at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year and won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.
Dialogues laden with poetry, anger oozing out in every scene, Sanskrit shlokas playing in the background and a spellbound audience, summed up the performance.
Poorna Jagannathan, one of the performers and best known for the film 'Delhi Belly', equates sexual violence with an epidemic.
"The sexual violence has almost become an epidemic. It is not just a woman problem, or a man-woman problem; it is in fact a global problem," Poorna said.
