As cliches go, one can hear a pin drop. But once the show starts, Bangalore theatre company Attakalari's "world premiere" of its New Age play-without-words delights and deafens the audience.

It is a sell-out show. The wordless actors are given a rock-star send-off with multiple curtain-calls, rumbustious cheering, claps that soar to the rooftops and much stamping of feet.

And the Bonn Biennale, one of Europe's best-known cultural festivals, tots up yet another hit in its first-ever attempt to bring the very essence of modern India to a resurgent Germany all too used to harking back to fond memories of the "mystic" Oriental giant it has long loved from afar.