French Love Poetry in Motion (2019)

Imagined and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar


In partnership with St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts (SAPP) and Alliance Française de Bombay comes a poetic presentation. A collection of classical and contemporary French love poems translated in English. The poems are performed by a set of actors using Text, Voice and Body. The poems are handpicked from Louis Aragaon, Arthur Rimbaud , Pierre de Ronsard, Max Jacob, Victor Hugo, Maurice Scève, Joachim du Bellay , Gérard de Nerval, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and other such poets. Along with poems a few love letters would be read penned by Simone de Beauvoir, Pierre Currie and Napolean Bonaparte.

Alliance Française de Bombay in collaboration with St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts and Metamorphosis Theatre Inc

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