Decades after the war, Manjira comes face to face with a man from her past — a man whose presence disrupts the fragile stillness of her present. What unfolds is not just a confrontation, but a reckoning with long-silenced truths and unresolved histories.
Told as a suspenseful thriller in the Brechtian theatre style, Manjira: The Muted Melody deliberately breaks the emotional spell of traditional theatre — not to make you feel, but to make you think. It asks urgent questions about justice, memory, and the price of silence in a society eager to move on.
This is a play where the tension builds not only onstage, but within the audience’s own mind.
The play is an interpretation of Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, written in Nepali by Som Nath Khanal and Sandesh Ghimire.
