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.

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.

“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.

A fun and heart-warming story about one of Haruki Murakami’s famous literary characters from the book A Wild Sheep Chase comes alive in this play during the time of Christmas. The Sheep Man encounters different characters on his journey on the Christmas Eve, where he is exposed to strange and myriad creatures and their way of life. Sheep Man’s Christmas is a feel-good Christmas story with a message to take home as well laugh over the stupidity of situations sketched in the play. The play is a Costume Adventure of 90 minutes filled with humour and strange kind of funny musical notes.

The play opens with a light operator in a mental asylum who introspects on his journey as a theatre practitioner and his life as a life operator. In his early career, he worked with fellow thespians and did exceptional work on stage light design for their plays until he started seeing some paranormal activities on stage after pack up. The world of theatre that he had seen after everyone left from the auditorium left him baffled. Properties moved on its own, lights flickered on their own, the system played a background score and he witnessed it all. The paranormal experience of the stage left such an imprint on his life that the normal and the paranormal intermingled with each other in such a way that he didn’t know what was real and what was beyond the real, only to land up in a mental asylum. Does he discover the answers over there? Do the spirits of the stage follow him there? Is he even mental? What drove him to see what others couldn’t see?

Translated from English to Marathi by Pratibha Joshi.

Which is more painful? The moment when something absolutely beautiful leaves your life without giving you a chance to even attempt to hold on to it … or the moment when you realize that you have to make a choice to leave something absolutely beautiful? Hope, Hamartia and Books is a complex piece about ‘life and its pain’ set in five countries like Japan, France, Estonia, Czech Republic and Spain.

A writer sitting in Paris decides to write a novel on the most fundamental purpose of our existence: Death. However, is it Death or Love that is the sole purpose of our existence? While finding answers to the most painful questions of life, he sketches characters of those around him, only to realise later whether the novel is being written by him or is it the novel writing his story of life!

The novel travels on the path of love to reach its destination (death). On this journey, dreams, desires, reality gets entangled in such a way that each character in the book finds themselves in a surreal book house, reading this devastatingly beautiful book Hope, Hamartia and Books.

Hope, Hamartia and Books is a journey through the labyrinth of life, weaving a kaleidoscope of tragic characters from Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novels reaching to a cataclysmic conclusion. To those entangled in love, the play breaks your heart excruciatingly to set it free.