ROPE (DESIRES UNLIMITED)

Do you approve of murder? As crime? As punishment? As justice? As self defense? As an Art??

The play ROPE, written by Patrick Hamilton (1929, London), is loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case (1924, Chicago). The incident and Hamilton's work also inspired Alfred Hitchcock's film 'Rope' (1948). This production is an adaptation of both the play and the film.

The play is set in Mussoorie in the late 1980s. Daniel and Sunny are fresh graduates from St. Georges college. They, as an expression of their intellectual superiority, strangle their batch-mate Dilip Negi to death and place his body in a chest. They then proceed to host a small party in the same room around the chest. The guests include Dilip's friends and family and their old school teacher, Prof. Jehan Kohli from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As the party proceeds, Prof. Kohli begins to suspect!