India, Oct. 8 -- Five cities, five performers, and a simultaneously timed global debut of a play that seeks to answer a question that matters everywhere: what do toxic relationships look like from the inside of one? On October 10, New Delhi will be one of the five cities in the world where Kenyan playwright Cosmos Bii's play, Yes, I Cheated On You, will be staged.

Structured as a monologue by a single actor, it will also be performed in Tubingen (Germany), Luxembourg, and Eldoret and Kisumu in Kenya. Anita Khemka, a 53-year-old photographer will perform it in New Delhi on Saturday.

The play examines "the emotional machinery that produces intimate partner/gender-based violence"rather than focusing on the final act of violence itself, Bii...