February 27, 1931. Alfred Park. Ambushed by the police, he was wounded in the crossfire defending his revolutionary companions. When they ran out of ammunition, freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad shot himself to avoid being captured by the British. He fulfilled the pledge that he had made. The Raj couldn't capture him alive. He was 24.

Now think of this situation in the context of the 21st-century. What if Azad could live-stream his final moments? If he could express a million thoughts that ran through his head as he stood at death's doorstep? This forms the premise of Delhi-based 22-year-old theatre-maker Aditya Tripathi's performance Azad Live — the first among six performances that will set the ball rolling at Mumbai's youth theatre festival Thespo's latest offering, Thespo Tapri: Cheeni Kam, Stories Zyaada.