“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ― Bertrand Russell

Poetry, Letters, and Paintings are the spontaneous overflows of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. In memory of the love lost and appreciation of the love found, St. Andrew’s Centre of Philosophy and Performing Arts in association with Metamorphosis Inc. brings to you a collection of handpicked letters and poems from literary writers, poets, painters, musicians, and artist.

From desire and longing to passion and relationship, these classic works of artist/e capture the full spectrum of romance, including its highest highs, bittersweet lows, and the power of lasting relationship.

‘Notes of Love’ features the works of beloved poets, writers, and artists which include Ted Huges, Frida Kahlo, Simone de Beauvoir, Christina Rossetti, Okkur Macatti, Elizabeth Bishop, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mark Strand, Rabindranath Tagore, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tennesse Williams, Federico García Lorca, Emily Dickinson, Khalil Gibran, and Marcel Proust. These works take on both desire and its higher power: love in all its tender and taunting variety. Come and experience the power of love through words, said and unsaid in this delicately crafted experience.

Christmas comes again, With Jingle Bells and Holly, With Christmas Trees so Jolly, With Santa on his sleigh, His cute little elves and sprightly little reindeer HoHoHo heyyy

We bring you the Love Hope and Joy of Christmas with a glittery evening of beautiful Poems for all. A Collection of Poems from Clinton Scollard, Sandra M. Castillo, Louisa May Alcott, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, John Gay, Charles Wesley, William Butler Yeats, Henry Vaughan, Toi Derricotte, E.E. Cummings, Walter de la Mare, Ted Kooser, Henry Van Dyke, Livingston Jr. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kenn Nesbitt, Christina Rossetti, T.S. Eliot

When India became free on 15th August 1947, Gandhi had no message for the nation, nor was he celebrating India’s Independence. He was in Calcutta fighting riots that were splitting the communal fabric of the country. He firmly believed that Religious Togetherness could only keep us united as a nation, and as a human being. Gandhi believed a respectful study of other’s religion was a sacred duty and it did not reduce reverence for one’s own. He was looking out for those universal principles which transcended religion as a dogma. This play is an attempt to bring his idea of religion to stage which he practised through his prayer meetings. The play is an amalgamation of movement, theatre, visuals and hymns.

In partnership with St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts (SAPP) and Alliance Française de Bombay comes a poetic presentation. A collection of classical and contemporary French love poems translated in English. The poems are performed by a set of actors using Text, Voice and Body. The poems are handpicked from Louis Aragaon, Arthur Rimbaud , Pierre de Ronsard, Max Jacob, Victor Hugo, Maurice Scève, Joachim du Bellay , Gérard de Nerval, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and other such poets. Along with poems a few love letters would be read penned by Simone de Beauvoir, Pierre Currie and Napolean Bonaparte.

“Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das, prominent Poets, famous contributors of Confessional Poetry, a style of Poetry that focuses on Individual experience and Personal Trauma, also focusing on sexuality, mental illness and personal anguish. Some beautifully poignant and soulful poems written by Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das which they wrote in their last few years of life will be performed by Actors using Voice, Emotion and Movement interspersed with an AV of Plath and Das’s photographs, sketches and life. Last Few Poems deal with their interests, their emotional state, their anguish with the people around them and the general hopelessness that they experienced leading to their untimely and early demise.

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen and quickly developed an assured and distinctive poetic voice.

This poetic play draws on work from throughout his writing life, from the famous early collection Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair (1924) to the key works of his maturity, Residence on Earth (1935), Elemental Odes (1954) and the autobiographical Memorial de Isla Negra (1964).

Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such unsentimental directness and sensual precision.

Metamorphosis Theatre Inc brings you the most celebrated and admired love poetry on stage penned in the last hundred years intermingling with Music, and Movement.

Sacred Voices from The West is a devised theatre piece of handpicked poems about the divine reflections of Saints, martyrs and modern poets. St. Francis’ loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; ecstatic love poems of St. Thomas Aquinas, Musical poetry of St. Catherine of Siena, Meister Eckhart’s freeing humour of divine reach; St. Teresa of Avila’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of St. John of the Cross to the painful trial of Joan of the Arc—these along with contemporary spiritual works by Maya Angelou, Karen Boye, Wallace Stevens, Alicia Ostriker, Julius Lester.

The play is an attempt to create profound and playful renditions of Western spiritual poems and paintings of artists like Caravaggio, Rubens, and Michelangelo through this theatrical piece for the modern audience.

‘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.

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.

Cold Mountains is a devised poetry performance of Han Shan poems from 10th cent China. The Poems are translated from Chinese by J. P. Seaton.