Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

― Rumi

Poets, time and again, have tried to pen the mystery of love in words, knowing very well that words can express love, and yet they never stopped writing about it. Love as desire, longing, passion, and union with the beloved have been the themes of centuries in East and West.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings that can’t be expressed in prose. Therefore, the reader and listener can fill in these blanks with their imaginations. 

`Beloved` is a journey beginning from the 3rd century BCE to contemporary times on which we meet Rumi, Soyrabai, Amir Khusrao, Kabir, St.Teresa of Avila, Tukaram, Hafez, Surdas, Sohrab Sepheri, Shamz Tabrizi, Janabai, St.John of the Cross, Amrita Pritam, Gathasaptasati poems, HomaKatouzian, Kusumagraj, Grace, Nida Fazli, Bahinabai, St. Thomas of Aquinas, Maya Angelou, Sangam poems,  Nahid Yousefi, Bhavabhutti, Forough Farrokhzad, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Meister Ekhart.

Let us come together at the beginning of the new year season to celebrate the poetry of love, longing, and devotion in this delicately crafted experience.

Designed & Directed by Omkar Bhatkar

A Metamorphosis Theatre and Films experience