There’s an uncanny beauty in seeing fiction walk along reality. It gives viewers a sense of time and progression. The opening scene of Satyajit Ray’s Charulata is 12 minutes long; it lets audiences hold the lonely protagonist’s hand as she moves from one corner of the house to another. Tracking the characters’ journey in Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson might bring one back to the point they started from.

Sometimes, progression is not about moving forward or reaching a destination distinguished from the home site. It’s about passage. Actor-director Sukant Goel’s version of the play, which sticks to Donald Watson’s English translation of the original, highlights this circular futility of life.