The play “White Nights” is a dramatic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s story “White Nighst: A Sentimental Love Story”. The narrative explores the desperation, fragility and unreality of isolation reproduced within the intensive space of the cityscape where a man, (the dreamer) meets a stranger, a woman from Bangaladesh, (Nastenka/ Nasrin) with whom over a period of four nights he shares his life and his dreams. The play also unfolds the story of Nastenka who has left her home in search of her love and has come to Delhi to find him. The play dramatises the nature of the profound bonding that develops between the dreamer and Nastenka over these four nights. The play with its installation lighting and fragmented spatial organisation through sets and use of projection has tried to give a theatrical representation to this idea of a not so clearly defined reality where things unfold with real affects, like two people coming together but for obscure reasons which cannot be categorised as ‘sheer’ love or ‘mere’ friendship.

On Stage		Back Stage
Sharmistha Saha		Music	Ankush, Srimon, Gokul, Sriraka, Janani, Hima, Jyoti, Smruthi
Sudipto Mukhopadhyay		Lights	Shruti
Kiran Pawar		Set Design & Animation	Rishi Kumar
		Properties	Rajdeep (Special thanks to Vibhuti)
		PowerPoint & Projection	Manari
		Documentation	Rajdeep, Sudipto, Prakash
		Costume & Makeup	Sharmistha Saha
		Poster-Brochure	Rishi, Soumick, Rajdeep
		Publicity	Satish, Raj, Amita, Tarique
		Set Assistance	Satish
		Script Assistance	Sharmistha, Kiran, Tarique
		Dramaturgy	Soumick
		Script and Direction	Soumyabrata Choudhury