Empty Night at Harrisburg Fringe Festival

Abhisek Bhattacharya’s Award-Winning Play, “Empty Night,” at the Harrisburg Fringe Festival, 2026

Tickets are now available for this eagerly anticipated new show, which takes place on July 17-19, 2026

MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, JUNE 11, 2026 - Hattimatim-Team presents Abhisek Bhattacharya’s award-winning play, “Empty Night,” on July 17-19, 2026, at the Harrisburg Fringe Festival, Harrisburg, PA.

This eagerly awaited play is directed by Bhattacharya himself and explores the effects of climate change on human-animal interactions. It talks about the eternal parental love for their offspring, predator-prey relationships, and questions who the real predators are. It asks about the responsibility humans bear, not only to themselves but also to Mother Earth and its inhabitants.

An injured thief runs into a wounded Bengal tiger under the shadow of a prominent politician's house, where the hunters are celebrating a successful hunt. The play portrays how the construction of a dam near a village destroys the forest and farmland, and disrupts the lives, hopes, and dreams of a farmer who turns to stealing, and a tigress who must take care of her cubs in whatever way she can. Their chance encounter brings hidden questions to the surface as both the creatures, apparently on the verge of death, both trying to fend for their children, confront what life has in store for them. Both make ultimate sacrifices, and in the process, one learns what it truly means to be a real human.

“This is a story of our times. Our world is changing, forests are disappearing, animal habitats are shrinking, and instead of hiding our collective heads in the sand, “Empty Night” decides to confront the problem, that too, from the perspective of an animal whose mesmerizing beauty is often overshadowed by its ferocity," says playwright and director Abhisek Bhattacharya. “Empty Night” won the Producer’s Pick award at the Z Fringe Festival, 2026 (Virginia Beach, VA), and was performed at multiple fringe festivals across the USA, where the performances were met with warm, enthusiastic applause and thoughtful audience interaction.

Founded in 2019, Hattimatim-Team is a bilingual community theatre company based in Maryland, USA. For the last couple of years, they have performed all over the USA, from LA to off-off-Broadway play festivals in NYC, presenting Abhisek’s original plays.

Cast:

TIGRESS: Didhiti Mukherjee

THIEF: Abhisek Bhattacharya

Venue:

312 Chestnut St, Harrisburg, PA 17101

Time:

Friday, July 17 @ 6:00 PM

Sunday, July 19 @ 11:00 AM

Sunday, July 19 @ 2:15 PM

Tickets:

https://harrisburg.ssboxoffice.com/events/empty-night/

For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:

Abhisek Bhattacharya

abhisek.creation@gmail.com

contact@hattimatim-team.com

ABOUT HATTIMATIM-TEAM

Hattimatim-Team is a theatre troupe based in Maryland, bringing original productions all over the USA.

CONTACT

Hattimatim-Team

E-mail: contact@hattimatim-team.com

Facebook: @HattimatimTeam

Instagram: @abhisek_hattimatim_team

Website:

https://www.hattimatim-team.com/

https://www.abhisekbhattacharya.com

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