Kathmandu, Dec. 2 -- It is quite a feat for just two actors on a darkened stage to hold an audience spellbound for more than one hour. Us.' at Kausi Theatre does just that.

It is a thought-provoking but baffling work that leaves the audience questioning reality, the recurring metaphors in this intriguing and powerful dark comedy haunting us for days afterwards.

The unsettling sound of deep breathing mingles with percussive drumming and a driving guitar that pulsates amidst a red glow, dimly illuminating shadowy structures charred by fire. A door leads to what is later revealed to be the ancestral home of two brothers which is 'under renovation'.

One of the brothers Ashim (Bijaya Tamrakar) lives in Nepal caring for a supposedly comatos...