This Monday evening, at a multiplex in a mall in Sector 21, the audience bought the tickets, made their way inside the cinema hall, and found their seats. But instead of the opening credits on the big screen, the audience was greeted by the cast in front of the screen. It was a play being staged inside a cinema hall, in what the organisers call is a first-of-its-kind experiment.

A Noida-based theatre group, 'Actor Unveiled', staged their play 'On The Astral Plane' inside a cinema hall of a Noida multiplex. The group said that the idea to hold a play inside a cinema hall sprung from the constant complaint of Noida not having decent auditoriums for theatre. Kanu Priya, the director, said, "I had been trying to look for a proper auditorium for almost two years in Noida, and in their absence, and had to stage shows in Delhi instead. But that meant that our Noida folks and the actors' families had to travel there to see. So when I couldn't find a decent auditorium, I decided to be a little creative and that's how this idea came."

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