NUMBERS IN THE DARK is a theatrical creation that has been devised and developed by the actors of the play. A vein is to a leaf what an individual is to a collective. It follows then that the reflection in the mirror is a link to your life. This creation aims aims to explore the realm of individual truth as shaped by our collective memory and the loss of identity. The broken images within and outside of the system makes us pose the question; which truth does one trust? And, whose truth?

Unable to rely on documentation, media, or even history, to tell us the whole truth, today’s citizen often finds the reflection in the mirror contradicting the source.

These were some of the thought processes that shaped NUMBERS IN THE DARK which deals with the concept of the young Indian adult; shaped as much by the events of the 21st century as by the history of 5000 years. Jostling for space, we continue to struggle, to create our own memory and reality. Memory that lies trapped within the layers that surround us.

The play found its direction stimulated by characters from Harold Pinter's "Mountain Language" that echo the marginalization within our own system. His Nobel Prize speech which includes a critique of the Bush and Blair government also contributes to this creation. The other material source for this play are Italo Calvino's stories like "Solidarity", "The Mirror", "The Target", etc.

Numbers in the Dark tries to explore the universal question: What is our real truth? What is our real identity? Is there one at all? Are we just Numbers in the Dark?