Last year, amid the first lockdown, Mumbai-based theatre company Rage Productions collaborated with US-based EnActe Arts, and invited playwrights to write digital plays, reflecting the times we were living in. At the time, Rahul da Cunha, co-founder of Rage Productions, started toying with an idea he had always been obsessed with: that of ageing parents. Eventually, da Cunha submitted a script for the collaboration, and the play, Framroze Mansion, will be airing this weekend online.

Written by da Cunha and directed by Meherzad Patel, the virtual play revolves around a Parsi family, and will be staged just in time to celebrate Navroz. “I’ve always wanted to explore the idea of ageing parents, and how their children are often in different parts of the world. But there’s always that one poor sibling who’s in the same city as the parents, and has to tackle everything, while others give backseat instructions. All of us have been in this situation; I thought this was a great opportunity for a comedy,” explains the playwright.