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The Last act

 Story Direction & Scenograhy By Gourab Mukherjee

Image by Biswajit Ray


In the flickering shadows of a forgotten room—littered with faded photographs, dusty trophies, and the silence of memories long past—a man once hailed as a legend prepares for his final performance. But this isn’t a film shoot. There are no directors, no lights, no makeup artists. Just one spotlight… and the truth.

The Last Act is not your typical stage play. It is a raw, unfiltered descent into the inner world of a fallen superstar. A man whose life was once celebrated on magazine covers, movie posters, and red carpets—now left grappling with betrayal, abandonment, and the suffocating weight of silence. As he speaks, he doesn’t just tell his story—he unearths it, layer by layer, emotion by emotion.

What begins as a confession quickly spirals into a reckoning. Through moments of biting sarcasm, unsettling humour, quiet heartbreak, and explosive rage, the man in the room forces the audience to confront uncomfortable truths—not just about fame and the film industry, but about us: the spectators, the fans, the society that builds up and breaks down.

Blurring the boundaries between performance and reality, The Last Act dares to ask: What remains of a man when the lights go out? How much of ourselves do we sell to survive? And who are we when the applause ends?

This is not just a play—it’s a mirror held up to the faces we hide behind. A journey into the crumbling psyche of someone who once had it all. And maybe, just maybe, a plea to be seen… for real.

Come. Sit. Watch. Witness.

Let the curtain rise on a story that refuses to fade.