Poems from the film Il Postino.

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 evening draws from the poems that are the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda. Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such unsentimental directness and sensual precision. This poetic experience is an amalgamation of 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), all suffused in the film Il Postino, and later published in a book by the Harvill Press, London.

This poetic experience is designed by Dr. Omkar Bhatkar using movement, music, and visual aesthetics along with the text.

PERFORMANCES:

20th July 2023, Godrej Dance Theatre, NCPA
21st & 22nd July 2023, SAPP, Bandra (W).

AN NCPA LIBRARY, SAPP & METAMORPHOSIS THEATRE INC. PRESENTATION