Jan 04 2026 to Jan 04 2026 7 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

What happens when the story parents tell themselves begins to unravel?

Things I Know to Be True opens inside a household that appears settled, successful, and certain of its own choices. The parents believe they have raised four responsible, self-sufficient children. Yet, as the family gathers and life quietly intervenes, that confidence begins to fracture. Each child stands at a turning point (some comic, some devastating) forcing the family to confront what growing up truly costs, and what letting go really means.

Written by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell and directed by veteran theatre-maker Feisal Alkazi, the play traces the intimate tremors beneath everyday life: marriages that settle into routine, careers that falter, identities that refuse to stay hidden, and parents learning (often painfully) that love cannot protect against every fall. With deeply universal themes, the play has resonated across continents, becoming one of the world’s most performed scripts in recent years.

Familiar lives, difficult choices, and the tender ache of watching those we love grow in unexpected ways.

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Performers

Feisal Alkazi
Director
Feisal Alkazi is an educationist, social activist, author, master trainer, and theatre director based in New Delhi. Over a career spanning more than fifty-two years, he has directed over three hundred plays and shaped Indian theatre practice through his long association with Ruchika Theatre Group. His work in children’s theatre is especially significant, with over two hundred productions directed across cities including Delhi, Jaipur, Chennai, Moradabad, Chandigarh, and Gwalior. He is the author of Rang Biranga Rangmanch, published by the National Book Trust, which has sold over thirty thousand copies. Feisal has also directed two television serials and thirty-two documentaries and short films. He received the Sanskriti Award for outstanding contribution to theatre in 1987. He founded and headed Ankur, Society for Alternative in Education, for ten years and continues to design theatre-based training programmes for diverse organisations.

Ritvik Mohann Bhagat
Producer
Ritvik Mohann Bhagat holds a bachelor’s degree in acting and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in counselling and family therapy from Indira Gandhi National Open University. He has worked extensively with Feisal Alkazi, Gouri Nilakantan Mehta, and Tarique Hameed, and has been active in theatre practice for over fifteen years. Ritvik is currently the drama teacher at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and has written and directed annual productions for schools including Nirmal Bhartia School (Dwarka), Father Agnel School (Vaishali), and Dayawanti Punj Model School (Sitamarhi). For over ten years, he has directed children’s theatre under Feisal Alkazi’s mentorship, completing more than thirty productions with performers aged seven to fifteen. He has also worked closely with children and young adults living with disabilities at ASTHA.

Radhika Mullick Alkazi
Actor
Radhika Mullick Alkazi is an actor and singer with a deep personal interest in gardening and ecological care. She is the founder and managing trustee of ASTHA, a community-based organisation that works with children living with disabilities and their families in difficult circumstances. Radhika has been associated with Ruchika Theatre Group for over thirty-five years and has acted in more than one hundred productions. Her long engagement with theatre has been marked by a sustained curiosity about human experience, with each role serving as an exploration of both the world around her and her own evolving sense of self.

Sanjiv Desai
Actor
Sanjiv is a theatre practitioner who has written, directed, and acted in over sixty productions across a wide range of performance contexts. He has worked with prominent groups including Barry John’s Theatre Action Group, Feisal Alkazi’s Ruchika Theatre Group, and Aamir Raza Husain’s StageDoor. His recent work includes a major role in Disney’s Broadway-scale stage musical Beauty and the Beast, where he played Maurice, Belle’s father. A graduate of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Sanjiv is also an occasional musician, performing country and soft rock for close audiences.

Gayatri Rattan Khanna
Actor
Gayatri has been a theatre practitioner for over twenty years. An actor as well as a voice and speech instructor, she has been associated with Ruchika Theatre Group and the Little Actors Club since 1997, working under the mentorship of Feisal Alkazi. She is a certified speech and drama teacher from the Julia Gabriel Centre for Learning and has also trained in acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Gayatri has conducted drama workshops across schools in Delhi and Gurugram and is known for her sustained commitment to performance pedagogy and actor training.

Raghav Seth
Actor
Raghav Seth is a Delhi-based theatre practitioner and artiste whose professional journey began nearly a decade ago. His work spans acting, direction, stage management, music, and lighting, reflecting a broad engagement with the many elements that shape theatrical production. Alongside his performance practice, Raghav currently works as a theatre teacher, combining hands-on experience with pedagogical inquiry. His evolving career reflects a continued interest in collaborative creation and the technical as well as expressive dimensions of theatre.

Arnav J. H. Michael
Actor
Arnav has been associated with Ruchika Theatre Group for over five years. Alongside a full-time corporate career, he sustains an active creative practice through theatre, drawing, crafts, and videogames. His engagement with performance is rooted in curiosity and experimentation, using theatre as a space for imaginative expression beyond professional routine. Through his work with Ruchika, he continues to explore collaborative processes and ensemble-driven storytelling.

Aakriti Sharma
Actor
Aakriti is an interdisciplinary theatre artist whose practice brings together performance, education, and social work. She has worked with Feisal Alkazi for over a decade, developing her craft through a wide range of productions and collaborative projects. Professionally trained as an educator, she integrates storytelling and participatory theatre methods into her teaching practice. She is currently studying to become a development management professional, extending her work toward community-centred initiatives and using the arts as a tool for learning, reflection, and social change.

Sunil Arora
Lights Designer
Sunil began his theatre journey in 1975 with Ruchika Theatre Group and has remained deeply involved for over five decades. He has worked across nearly every aspect of theatre production, with a particular focus on lighting design, contributing to over one hundred productions. His design philosophy treats lighting as a tool to enhance the emotional and visual impact of performance. With an academic background in economics, business management, and foreign trade, Sunil spent four decades in the textiles industry before transitioning away from entrepreneurship in 2018. He now devotes his time to theatre, travel, mentoring startups pro bono, selective angel investing, and mentoring school students through AIM and NITI Aayog initiatives.

Meenakshi Arora
Music
Meenakshi began her theatre journey in 1993 with Ruchika Theatre Group’s production of A Passion Play, directed by Feisal Alkazi. Over the past twenty-two years, she has acted regularly in numerous Ruchika productions, all under Feisal’s direction. Beyond acting, she has contributed to music and assisted across multiple aspects of theatre-making wherever needed. Meenakshi is also trained in Latin American and ballroom dance, which she began studying in the early two-thousands and has taught since 2010. A voracious reader and emerging writer, she enjoys travel, fitness, and creative exploration in the kitchen.