A blistering collection of six plays by Makarand Sathe, charting the absurdities of the human condition across deep time, fractured metropolises, and the bureaucratic afterlife.

Operating with a radical, restless freedom, Makarand Sathe’s theater dismantles the architectures of power and myth. In Four Billion Amnesiacs, we are hurled into 3985 CE, a dystopian economy where human lifespan itself is traded as currency. Mr. Saptnekar’s Child spirals into a fable of divine clowns and uncanny conceptions, upending our tidy notions of faith and biology. Time and space are routinely ruptured: Crossroads traps a city at a traffic signal terrifyingly suspended between two riots, mapping the everyday mechanics of complicity, while They Went Ahead deposits urbanites and farmers alike into a grimly comic purgatorial holding pen.

In Time and Time Again, Men Take to the Battlefield, the mythic duel of the Mahābhārata is dragged into the harsh light of collateral damage, voiced by a pregnant widow interrogating the cyclical butcheries of men. Finally, in Exit, an octogenarian couple awaits the end, their mortality subjected to the whims of a glitching celestial app. Laced with a pitch-black wit, Sathe’s plays are profound philosophical inquiries into memory, violence, and the illusion of choice. A vital, uncompromising work of the contemporary avant-garde.