Khyapate’s new play explores language, silence and power

The theatre troupe Khyapate is bringing an absurdist exploration of language, silence and human existence to the stage with “Language or the Political Catastrophe of Love”, written by Shahman Shahriar Moishan.

Directed by Sanjit Kumar Dey, the play will be staged twice this Saturday (January 31) at the Lecture Theatre Hall of the Theatre Institute Chattogram. The shows will begin at 6:15pm and 7:15pm, according to a press release.

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Rooted in the enduring conflict of human existence, the play navigates birth, death, crime and the impossibility of true communication through a careful interplay of dialogue and silence. Using symbolic and aesthetic devices, it examines how language both connects and fractures human relationships—how what is spoken often fails, and what remains unspoken carries its own weight.

The production places language and silence not as opposites, but as competing forces locked in a political and emotional struggle. At its core lies a question that feels urgently contemporary: when confronted by power, does one bow the head or stand upright?

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Inviting audiences to the performances, director Sanjit Kumar Dey said the play speaks directly to the anxieties of the present moment.

“We are living through a time when we are constantly faced with difficult questions about ourselves,” he said. “Caught in a complex equation between submitting to power and standing up against it, each of us is passing through a long, breathless period of despair.”

He added, “We invite everyone to witness this work born out of that despair. Your presence will give us courage.”