Borders can shift. Power can fall. But the empire always lingers—in accents, in bedrooms, in the silence between lovers.

Acclaimed theatre artist Vkinn Vats presents a powerful new play “Echoes of Empires”, a visceral and intimate drama that unearths the legacies of colonialism, class, love, loyalty, identity and cultural displacement in a modern world.

Set within the intimate confines of a living room and a quiet courtyard, Echoes of Empires unfolds over a single evening—yet stretches across generations. Four diverse characters confront the fault lines of their relationships, identities, and inherited legacies. Love becomes layered with loyalty. Desire clashes with duty. And history, though never mentioned outright, sits in every pause, every glance, every unspoken word.

Told in taut, lyrical dialogue and masterfully fractured timelines, the play breaks theatrical conventions while retaining a deeply human core. What begins as a domestic love conflict becomes a haunting meditation on the long aftershocks of empires, and the emotional cost of building a self in a world that quietly demands assimilation.

The play asks: What do we owe to history? And how do we reconcile the burdens of it with our own desires and choices now?