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Racy and profound, a maelstrom of emotion and a heady cocktail of ideas, Hidden in Plain Sight v2.0 digital edition is a must-see for anyone interested in the theatrical avant-garde! You must have heard of the Mailer Daemon? She faithfully replies to you, every time an email bounces. From the message fragments she often finds, she knows there’s a girl in the apartment who’s possibly losing her mind. Sandhya is trekking up in the mountains but can’t quite seem to find her freedom. And then there’s Mrs Raghuraman, who loses her head at a party. Four characters intertwined by fate, their stories woven into a tapestry that can only reveal the unspoken, the partial, the incomplete… 

Winner of the Infallibles Award 2021 for the Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe. Hidden in Plain Sight v2.0 is the culmination of a nine-year journey. This is a story of four women in the city who are unmoored from society – who have “dropped off the grid” so to speak. In the search for meaning-making in this digital hybrid-theatre format, the aesthetics emerged from an exploration of being isolated, mental health, voyeurism and feelings of claustrophobia – something we all vividly experienced during the pandemic. 

Hidden in Plain Sight nudges the limits of performance making, new writing and the actor’s craft. The text has a prism-like structure – each woman rejects a conventional social position, and in the process, encounters primal energy. As light enters this prism, the facets of the characters emerge through refraction. The screening of the digital performance will be followed by a discussion and Q&A session with the artistes on Saturday 22 nd October 2022.