AAINA is an intimate Playback Theatre experience where everyday stories are heard, held, and reflected live.
23rd May (Saturday) | 5 PM – 7 PM · Mcubed Library, Bandra West · ₹500 per seat
AAINA is a space where people gather to listen, reflect, and witness real stories from life.
Audience members are invited to share moments, memories, feelings, or fragments from lived experience. These are then reflected back live by an ensemble through Playback Theatre.
It is not scripted. It is not stand-up. It is not a conventional play.
It is a living human experience of listening, resonance, and shared reflection.
"A living human experience of listening, resonance, and shared reflection."
Not a performance to watch from a distance — but a room that holds you.
You enter an room designed for attention, warmth, and presence.
Audience members may choose to share a moment, memory, or feeling.
The ensemble responds in the moment through Playback Theatre.
The room becomes a mirror — of emotion, humour, memory, tenderness, and connection.
People come to AAINA:
to experience something real in a world full of noise
to be in a room where listening still matters
to feel moved, surprised, or reflected
to spend an evening with depth, warmth, and presence
to witness how ordinary human stories become extraordinary when held with care
AAINA is often experienced as a moving, unexpected, and deeply human.
Date: 23 May (Saturday)
Time: 5 PM – 7 PM
Venue: Mcubed Library, Bandra West
Contribution: ₹500 per seat
No. You are welcome to simply attend, listen, and witness.
Not at all. AAINA is for anyone open to human stories and meaningful experience.
Yes. Many people do.
No. The evening unfolds live in response to the audience.
An evening of listening, reflection, and real stories from life.
23 May (Saturday) | Bandra West | ₹500
Seats are limited.
You do not need to prepare anything.
You do not need to perform.
You only need to arrive.
A room you want to enter.
Not a show. A living, breathing evening of shared humanity.
Playback Theatre is a form of improvisational theatre in which audience members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot.
It is not therapy. It is not performance art. It is a disciplined, ensemble-based practice of listening and reflection — one that has been practised around the world for over four decades.
At AAINA, Playback Theatre is offered as a public gathering — a space for anyone to come, share if they wish, and witness how their story, or someone else's, is held and given form.
The ensemble does not interpret or judge. They listen, and they reflect.
Listening-led public experiences and Playback Theatre gatherings.
23 May | 5 PM – 7 PM Mcubed Library, Bandra West ₹500 per seat
Stories not from books. Stories from life.