Archive · 26 Aug 2026
The Thing With Feathers Brings Love and Loss to Delhi
The Thing With Feathers is a play about people living during difficult times in history.
It shows how ordinary people deal with love, separation, and loss.
Even when life changes suddenly, the characters try to keep living and hoping.
Birds are used as characters that watch what happens to the people.
The play asks what helps people stay strong when the world around them changes.
Rajat Kapoor directs the production.
It will be performed in Delhi on September 26 and 27, 2026.
The play already had a successful, houseful run in Mumbai.
Aadyam Theatre will present The Thing With Feathers in Delhi on September 26 and 27, 2026.
Directed by Rajat Kapoor, the play previously had a houseful first run in Mumbai.
Co-written by Rabia Kapoor and Chandrachoor Rai, it follows ordinary people living through turbulent 20th-century events.
The story explores love, separation, loss, resilience, and the persistence of hope across continents and time.
Birds appear as characters and witnesses, while the production features an ensemble cast and experienced creative team.
- Who
- Aadyam Theatre, directed by Rajat Kapoor and co-written by Rabia Kapoor and Chandrachoor Rai, will present the play with an ensemble cast.
- What
- The Thing With Feathers is a play about love, loss, separation, resilience, and hope during turbulent periods of the 20th century.
- When
- September 26 and 27, 2026.
- Where
- OP Jindal Auditorium in Delhi; the play previously ran in Mumbai.
- Why
- The production aims to explore how people persist and find hope amid extraordinary historical changes.
- Production
- The Thing With Feathers
- Presenter
- Aadyam Theatre, an initiative by the Aditya Birla Group
- Director
- Rajat Kapoor
- Writers
- Rabia Kapoor and Chandrachoor Rai
- Delhi dates
- September 26 and 27, 2026
- Venue
- OP Jindal Auditorium, Delhi
- Previous run
- The play had a houseful first run in Mumbai