Enacte Arts

Our Mission!

The appetite of the world at large for all things Indian has never been higher. Bollywood has become a household standard for entertainment from Belarus to Zimbabwe via Mississippi. Chicken curry, long the bastion of menus in obscure English pubs is well on its way to attaining the ubiquity of a cheeseburger. Indian authors proliferate on the world’s bookshelves and must read lists of books. However the story of ‘India’ is not the story of a land as its political borders suggest today – it is inextricably linked with that of its neighbors, the collective that constitutes South Asia.

It begins in Persia, whence we originate, and spans from Afghanistan to Bangladesh and Bhutan, from Nepal to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, from Pakistan to Burma and Tibet.The borders that separate us are political but the ties that bind us are cultural, and they go deep.EnActe aims to bring to the world stage the best of South Asian theatre.

Stories!

Stories with their origins in South Asia but having a universal appeal.South Asian stories whose origins are so old we cannot trace their beginnings.Stories that are so new that we write them as we stage them.And everything in between.

Voices!

Voices that have the clarity of a single culture. Voices that come from the South Asian diaspora and are perfumed by another culture layered onto their South Asian origins. And last but not least, voices that were not born into South Asia but have been drawn to the region by the curiosity of the seeking mind that finds a tale worth telling.