Ansh (Mumbai)’s Piyakkad, at KCC

Hilarious, surreal and deeply unsettling, Piyakkad explores the fragile line between intoxication and liberation. A man finds truth, illusion and escape through alcohol, blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. With Makarand Deshpande’s trademark mix of absurdist humour, lyrical monologues and raw emotional intensity, his one-man play becomes both a mirror of loneliness and a doctrine of freedom, a layered metaphor for our human condition, a philosophical reflection on dependence, escape and the fragile complexities of the psyche.

Part of the Ami Arts Festival.