It's only been a few hours since actors Abhishek Pattnaik and Darsheel Safary have returned from Laxmangarh, a town in Sikar district of Rajasthan after performing their long-running English play, Two Adorable Losers. But there's no hint of tiredness. If anything, they seem energetic. "Each performance is proving to be more invigorating because the response to English plays in smaller towns is tremendous," says Pattnaik, who performed for students at an engineering institute.

After the act, the actors were greeted by a volley of questions about theatre and its soundness as a career. "We were hoping to elicit this sort of a response from the screening," he adds, optimistically. In fact, Out of the Box Production, which he founded along with writer Suketu Shah, earned the distinction of being the only theatre production to have performed for an audience size of 5K at Patna's Bapu Sabhaghar Auditorium, the second largest auditorium in Asia last year.