“A PORTRAIT OF PARADISE” is a one-man dramatic monologue that has been adapted to the Indian context from Lanford Wilson's "A Poster of the Cosmos."  A well-dressed man, obviously from the upper echelons of society, is brought into a psychiatric institution to be interrogated about what he has just done. His clothes are crumpled and dirty, and he looks haggard with worry. A psychiatrist says to him "You don't look like the kind of fellow who would have done something like that..." What kind of fellow is that? And what kind of thing? Is he condemned before he even begins to tell his side of the story?  Would you have the courage to empathise? Or even to try and understand?