He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

– Roy L. Smith

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created during Christmas. Illuminating Christmas trees, sparkling up gaily lights, unwrapping gorgeous gifts, reminiscing old songs …indeed!

Christmas isn’t just a festival but a feeling. The blessings of peace, the calm of kindness, the beauty of hope, the comfort of faith and the spirit of love, Christmas never ceases to fill our hearts with joy and life with magic. Metamorphosis Theatre Inc’s ‘Christmas in The Woods ‘brings Christmas to us through Elves who through their stories evince togetherness and elicit little hidden gifts of/in life.

Vidya and Kaivalya, who has a strong bond as teacher and student, haven’t met each other after the spring of 2003. What happens when on a strange stormy night they accidentally meet in a book shop! It’s been fourteen years now and they haven’t spoken to each other. Now, when they meet, they bond over books. But what follows soon, is the journey from the pages of books to the journey of life. Both of them find each of them unlike what they used to be during the school days. They talk about the journey of fourteen years, and how it has made and unmade them. ‘Novembercha Paus’ is a journey through the labyrinth of life, metaphorically travelling through the world of literature.

Life is not measured by the moments you breathe but the moments that take your breath away.

Fly on is just about such a moment. When two unsuspecting strangers meet and converge into a Paulo bus from Goa to Mumbai, their resultant rendezvous open up the hidden skeletons in their closets, what ensues is a conversation which makes them reveal their souls to each other in all its nakedness. And to top it all a powwow that throws them into the ocean of love; unblemished by expectations, unburdened by conditions, unrestrained by relations.

A love which is true and unconditional.

What happens when you have closed the doors of love, and someone knocks on the door, but not looking for love?

What happens when you think you will spend the bus journey finishing an unread book but you’re not able to read a line? And what happens when you reveal your most fragile part to a stranger?

What if he too walks on it? Or what if he flies away with it?
What does it really take to fall in love? Is Love a journey, or a stop, or maybe even a destination? Such questions and many others like these unveil on this journey between two strangers.

Kind, caring, loving and generous are words that come to a person’s mind while reflecting on the pious life of the Holy Saint, Mother Teresa. Reading about her, one will always come across the altruistic deeds of Mother Teresa. What lays obscure from this world is the void, loneliness and the emptiness that crept into Mother Teresa’s heart to a point where she cried out,” Pray for me that I may not turn a Judas to Jesus in this painful darkness.”

Metamorphosis Theatre Inc’s, ‘ If My Darkness is Light to Some soul’, revolves around the letters that Mother Teresa wrote for over 50 years to describe the darkness in her heart that threaten to annihilate her much bestowed faith in the Saviour.

He was an artist, uncomfortably comfortable in his usual life. She was a poetess, running away from the comforts of life. He found a poem, in an old magazine. It touched his soul and without even thinking much, he wrote to the poetess. She replied to his letter with another poem and he reverted with a painting. Soon they both made a world of their own, through poetry and painting. The strokes that he made and the words that she used; belonged to their magical world. But what happens, when they decide to meet? What happens when magic meets reality? She was an open book but he had his own secrets. What happens when unknown secrets are known and realities are realized? What happens to the magical world? What happens to poetry? What happens to painting? What happens to love?

Revelations and Realization of a relationship based upon the promises made in poems and dreams painted upon a canvas; is this story of ‘the poetess and the painter’.

One night after an incomplete meet in a café, seven strangers fall asleep in the arms of nocturnal dreams. In the dreamlike state, the characters find themselves wrapped in mysterious world which is almost real. It is in this space that love manifest through their sub conscious mind transcending time and distance.

Shazia who is the epitome of pleasures, at one night to deceive her husband about her love affair with Mark creates a fake lover.

Maya, talks to Vincent in this night about their strange love story as Vincent cannot remember her even after spending several nights with her. She remains the unknown stranger to him and after this night he would separate from her never to remember again.

Rishabh has been married for two years. But there is something lurking within him that doesn’t let him sleep peacefully. One night he takes an adventure of painting to discover the reason for his sleeplessness.

Night of Love is a tale of dreams that are deceiving but loyal, sorrowful yet sweet narrated by the deities of darkness- Nyx (Night), Selena (Moon), Achyls (Misery) and Oneroi (Dreams) using verse, object theatre and physical theatre.

Night of Love is about seven characters that experience love over the course of a night. Set partly in a cafe, the play skips from the present century to timeless dimensions exploring the concept of love, death, unrequited love, unsaid desires, dreams and deceit across space and time.

Night of Love is surrealist theatre piece written and directed by Omkar Bhatkar, inspired by works of Vivant Denon and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Freud’s interpretation of Dreams. The play uses physical theatre, poetry, prose, object theatre and greek mythology.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475- 1564) is universally celebrated as one of the greatest artist of all time. He is very well known as an architect, sculptor and a painter, but very few know him as a poet. Michelangelo’s love for poetry has gone through an obscured historical journey. It was half a century after Michelangelo’s death that a selection of his poems were finally published by his grand nephew Bounarroti. While he made an attempt to remind the world of the prosperity and grandeur about Michelangelo as the poet, he also went a long way towards obscuring the quality of Michelangelo’s poetry. He did not publish more than half of Michelangelo’s poems. The jagged fragments were blithely and tactily completed, the colloquialisms of Michelangelo’s poems were banished, metrical irregularities ironed out and tortuous syntax rendered straight forward. Further, even the pronouns in the poems were changed so that to avoid any suspicion of homoeroticism.

It was in this blandified and bowdlerized versions that the story of Michelangelo’s life and his poems survived for next two hundred years. Aesthetics of the Unfinished is a devised performance of Michelangelo’s life using his poetry in its original sense.

Aesthetics of the Unfinished as a theatrical project is an amalgamation of Art, Poetry, Physical theatre and Music.