With Poems by Sanket Angane, Aparna Angane, Pratibha Joshi, Jason Fernandes and Omkar Bhatkar

Arcadia…the promised land is a poetic piece, covering poetries on various aspects of ageing. The piece is an amalgamation of different kinds of poetries associated with gerontology and death, organically created by a team of six artists, who have been able to translate their lived experiences into a poetic form. The poems cover multiple perspectives of all those associated with ageing and death, ranging from the individual, to the family, relatives, neighbors, doctors, surgeons, and the society at large.

Arcadia is a collection of about fifteen poems in multilingual form, with English being the primary thread.

The piece is presented by a team of eight performing artists, and handful of the poems are performed by the poet themselves. Arcadia is a literary theatre piece, that’s neither absolutely theatre nor literature but in a hybrid space between the both. The piece is accompanied by an unplugged guitarist. Post this literary performance, the artists/ poets engage in discussion, interpretation, and analytical dialogue with the audience.