Kathmandu, July 23 -- Courts are built on performance. Judges perform authority. Lawyers perform certainty. Witnesses perform truth. Even the accused must perform innocence convincingly enough to be believed.

'Shh! Ijlaas Jaari Chha.' understands that theatre is not very different. Both ask people to step into roles, convince strangers, and blur the line between fiction and reality. Gunjan Dixit's production takes that similarity one step further. It asks how far a game can go before it stops being one. How long till the court ends?

Adapted by Bijay Bisfot (J.B. Deuja) from Vijay Tendulkar's 'Silence! The Court is in Session', Gunjan Dixit's production follows a travelling theatre troupe preparing to stage a courtroom drama in a village...