Imagined & Directed by Omkar Bhatkar
‘Resurrection as the Angels Saw it’ is a physical theatre piece with Easter poems by Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde and Maya Angelou playing in the background. There is a strong presence of angels in the Nativity, but where were they when Christ was crucified? The play explores the presence of angels at resurrection.
St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts and Metamorphosis Theatre Inc presentation
Imagined & Directed by Omkar Bhatkar
A collection of poems from students and teachers about learning and teaching,pains and bruises encountered on this journey ,the joys and happiness found ,naughty and bittersweet memories collected and above all the life that we live. Life and its unpredictability is unfolded in these poems handpicked from world Literature. The poems weave a spell that will take you to your school days on either side of the bench. The play is an immersive experience set in a black box where the lines between the stage and the audience are blurred.
Andrean Network of Dynamic and Inspired Educators in collaboration with St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts and Metamorphosis Theatre Inc
Devised by Omkar Bhatkar
‘BODIES THAT MATTER’ is a devised piece by Omkar Bhatkar dealing with the notions of bodies that do exist in society. Bodies that do matter and yet how are they often mistreated, misrepresented and more than often unrecognized by the popular media and culture. This devised theatre piece stitches classic and contemporary poems on such different kinds of bodies to portray that, they do exist and they do matter. Bodies that Matter is an experiential reality brought to stage with verse, voice and movements. The play makes extensive use of the performer’s body, thus making them push the boundaries of everyday life and realize the sublime body.
Metamorphosis Theatre Inc Presentation
Conceptualised by Omkar Bhatkar
The entire universe revolves around the notion of love. Love is our very nature, and what is your nature, it can never change. However, the expression of love changes. Today we express love in different ways and kinds, and few of us even fail to express. We all know we can experience love but we cannot describe it or express it totally.
Celebrating Love seeks to express this facets of Love in a lyrical-musical form.
‘Celebrating Love’ is an attempt made to bring Love together depicting its seven stages as Hub – Attraction, Uns – Infatuation, Ishq – Love, Aqeedat – Faith / Reverence, Ibaadat – Worship, Junoon – Obsession, Maut – Death
Inexorably drawn towards each other in love, the crescendo of love goes on increasing unchecked….
Celebrating Love is an inspired work created into a musical; borrowing from Persian Literature and Khalil Gibran’s idea of Love.
Metamorphosis Theatre Inc Presentation
Adapted from the book 'Bertolt by Jacques Goldstyn. Directed by Omkar Bhatkar
Bertolt is about a boy who enjoys playing alone, the boy’s best friend is an old oak. Bertolt, the oak tree and the boy share a friendship. This is a story that affirms the imagination and talks about being an individual. And then, it’s a story about loss, sorrow, and acceptance as well, But mostly it’s a story about childhood and how through play and observation we come to know ourselves. Bertolt is a parable of belonging, reconciling love and loss, and savoring solitude without suffering loneliness.
SAPP & Metamorphosis Theatre Inc Presentation
Source: Mid Day
Adapted from the memoir 'Samidha' by Pratibha Joshi. Directed by Omkar Bhatkar
Bandha Anubandha is based on Pratibha Joshi’s novel Samidha. The play is about Mahesh who returns to his village after five years to start a new life there. But from the moment he steps foot in the village, his life takes an unexpected turn. He meets Samidha near a tomb and they fall in love. The play uses a figurative and metaphorical style of storytelling while trying to understand the ever confused term, love.
Metamorphosis Theatre Inc Presentation
Written and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar
Its Advent Season in 1876, A hungry little Robin befriends Babousca who lovingly feeds him every day. In the icy hills of a faraway land lived a woodcarver Mr.Toomley. The Robin flies Seven Hills following Mr.Toomley when his grief knows no bounds. Mr.Toomley settles in the valley where lives little Piccola and Thomas. This year Piccola has no stocking for Santa and Thomas has no Nativity statues. Does Mr. Toomley find happiness? The Christmas fowl; the Squirrel ‘Squeaky’, the Reindeer ‘Rudie’ and the rabbit ‘Tibity’ tells us this miraculous story of the 1876: The Robin’s Christmas. Come Join us on this Christmas adventure with Squeaky, Rudie and Tibity.
Presented in an immersive style with the audience in the centre and performance around them in 360°. Written and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar with inspired from the poem ‘Piccola’ by Celia Thaxter, A Short story ‘The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey’ by Susan Wojciechowski, The Hungry Robin by Enid Blyton and Russian Folktake of Babousca.
St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts and Metamorphosis Theatre Inc presentation
Written and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar
Lamentations of the virgin looks at the lesser-explored facets of the Passion. Hour of the Mother delves into the grief of Mother Mary. “There is little mention of what happens in the journey from the pieta (the image of Mother Mary holding Christ’s body) to the tomb. The play does not have a single dialogue and has very little movement. In a sixty minute voiceover monologue, the play depicts how Mother Mary removes the crown of thorns, cleans her dead son’s body drenched in blood and wraps it it linen and myrrh.
St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts and Metamorphosis Theatre Inc presentation
Written and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar
“For a long time, I stood silent and dazed in the middle of the street in day time. Strange to say, I felt no anxiety, no fear. The only thing that kept repeating itself quietly in my mind was: Why this? Why?”
A believer of Christ, a passionate church-goer, a devout disciple who eagerly awaited every Sunday for her catechism class, Ophealia loved her shepherd vehemently; the shepherd who held the foot of a lamb in one hand and clasped a staff with the other. She called the church her home. But then something struck her soul so hard, that she felt her God was silent.
What went so treacherously wrong in the life of this faithful lover of Christ to make her question her faith? What was it that made Ophealia doubt her Christian beliefs?
How do we look at life through the darkness, and even if we go through the darkness just like a butterfly inside a chrysalis, where should we really go? Can one go back to normal, once their faith is shattered? Will Ophelia ever be able to regain her Lost Faith? Discover the journey of Ophealia through the very mother of God as we for the first time; hear the Testament of Mary as she laments over the broken body of Christ. Will the lamentations of a mother who lost her son, the flesh of her flesh provide any succorance to Ophelia’s lost faith and suffering?
Lamentations of the Virgin is a visual prayer that is said in form of a play. The Passion of Christ is narrated through the eyes of a mother, the Mother of sorrows using the references from scriptures, various sources but heavily drawn from the paintings and frescos of the Early Christian Art, Medieval Art, Byzantine Art, Renaissance and Early Modern Art.
St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts and Metamorphosis Theatre Inc presentation
Source: Mid Day
