Georg Büchner’s ‘Woyzeck’ was written in Germany at the turn of the 19th Century. Based on a true story, although the play was a response to fast industrialization and subsequent militarization of that period, it remains relevant even today. Especially because human beings are no more than human resources and land no more than site in this world driven by profit mongering. ‘Waseem’ is therefore an attempt to understand love, life, desire and above all, the ‘human’ through an everyday story – as everyday and exemplary as murder and suicide. Waseem is a character characteristic of lower middle class Indian life. His life revolves around going to work as a constable that requires him to do what is often not only against his will but also against human dignity. He finds respite from such alienation from two things. One is his deep attachment to the forest, the land he belongs to, where he wanders off to discover himself. The other is his wife, whom he loves immensely. He belongs to her. At least so he believed. The story unfolds to tell us more about these equations.

On Stage		Back Stage
Waseem	Tarique Hameed	Poster	Mani Maran, Rishi, Saurabh Vyas
Officer-in-charge	Ghufran Raghib	Set	Uday Bharadwaj
Doctor	Prabhat Raghunandan	Properties	Sumit Rajputt
Marium	Farha Noor	Publicity	Janani Kandhadai, Lakshmi Menon, Sujay Thakur, Ved Prakash, Violina Borah
Aslam	Sumit Rajputt	Back Stage:	Sarah Niazi, Bob Khurana, Parikshit Sachdeva, Mousumi Mandal, Anurima Chanda, Dhirendra Kumar, Manish Kumar, Greeny Francis
Sub-Inspector	Neelesh Singh	Light Design	Sharmistha Saha
Fatima	Suchetana Chanda	Music Design	Ankush Gupta
Inspector	Kartikeya Sharma	Coordinator	Farha Noor
Showman with the Money	Arpit Singh	Script Assistance	Members of ‘Wings’
Money	Suresh Kumar	Script and Direction	Sharmistha Saha
Showman with the Donkey	Raj Kumar
Donkey	Ankit Malhotra
Drummer at the Faironkey	Aadil Saifi