“We need development, one that can bring more jobs, better roads, better houses, electricity, means of transportation, education, and equal opportunities of growth for all sections of the society. But this development shouldn’t be at the cost of nature,” is the message that theatre director Zubin Driver and his team of 14 young artistes will stress on at a street performance at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. Known as the Fight Back Theatre, its members were raised in the slums of Bandra and will be staging the play, The Giving Tree, to spread the message of forestation on February 15.

Members of the Fight Back Theatre group during a street performance