The Bargad Theatre Fellowship is a fully funded, four-month intensive for emerging theatre-makers - rooted in process, play, and performance-making. Over months of rigorous training and collaboration with artists from across the country, the first cohort of 14 practitioners built tools, trust, and their own distinct voices. Irshad 2025 was their first public sharing - a moment of bloom, where process and play come together on stage.

Between truly knowing someone and believing what we've been told about them, there lies a fragile thread - spun by an unseen voice that mediates, meddles, and mythologises. The first play, Jugnuon Ki God Mein performance followed that thread: circling the stories we inherit, the ones we’re told, and the ones we lose ourselves in. Kacchi Chhat, the second play explored familiar questions about home. Where do we feel at home? What does it mean to make one?