In these disruptive and dangerous plays, Bilal Baig dismantles the white saviour complex and bulldozes the fourth wall, offering up two subversive tales told by unreliable narrators.

In Kainchee Lagaa, two estranged siblings intertwine across space and time. Billo, a tandoori-chicken-loving sex worker, dreams of a different life while her paranoid brother Arsalan obsessively reconstructs their family’s traumatic past. But as memory and myth clash during a long-awaited reunion, nothing is certain, and no one is innocent. In Jhooti, a trans woman carrying a plastic bag of her belongings pleads for protection from an unseen threat. As she beguiles the audience with poetry and Bollywood numbers, the masks fall away and her story spirals into a thrilling web of deception.

Together these explosive dramas revel in brown trans women who are duplicitous, cunning, and complex. Toying with the audience at every turn, Jhooti & Kainchee Lagaa is an urgent theatrical intervention that promises to leave no one unscathed.