Penned by writer Kumar Nagarkoti and directed by Ghimire Yubaraj, the play is a satire on political and social discord. Typical of Nagarkoti’s traits

of fiction, the play is without a defined story; it speaks through its surrealistic sequences and absurd happenings.  

The play loosely revolves around a writer who was still working on his new book when he went into a state of coma after the new constitution was not drafted on time. The characters of the play, who are actually the creations of the writer’s mind,     include a fisherman, a man in a wheelchair, a postman, a journalist and his girlfriend, the writer’s wife and her sister and a man named Nobody; the characters are not connected by a story but happen to gather in the writer’s house (also called Birthday House) to celebrate their birthday (everyone’s birthday is on the same day!).

In the Birthday House, the characters utter dialogues that at times sound like poetic prose and at others like inane rejoinders; the dialogues, which are also laced with explicit sexual jokes, are routinely interrupted by choreographed dance sequences that are backed by beautiful songs. All these vignettes together paint a picture of the socio-political conflict we are dealing with.

The play comes at you full throttle with disparate, disjointed fragments of life in the country, but even through all the chaos, it still manages to touch upon important issues about the status of god (or religion), the media and the overall state of a country; and in doing so, it make us ponder over the central question of whether the country itself isn’t actually in a coma.    

The play is on till February 4, every day at 4:45 pm, except Tuesdays.