I want to be a Hummingbird (2022)

Written and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar

Twelve-year-old Lucy finds herself as a misfit, the school children find her ideas strange and most of the teachers aren’t able to teach when she is in the class. She is tired of city life and school. Some grey material like carbon has got into her that keeps her unhappy. The mother eventually succumbs to her demand of going to meet her grandpa in the mountains. On her way to the mountains, she befriends a tiny strange creature and finally reaches far away from the world turning black and grey with carbon to the colourful valley filled with lilies and lilacs echoing the sound of sweet birds. The tiny strange bird and Lucy both start feeling happy after a long time as the grey matter on them starts washing off from their skin. Audiences are drawn to this grandpa’s sweet little garden where they discover artists from the past with a deep relationship to nature. A beautiful, original play that illustrates the power of simple living and offers a seldom-seen glimpse into the mystical relationship between creativity and nature through music, poetry, and visuals.

St. Andrew’s Centre for Philosophy & Performing Arts and Metamorphosis Theatre Inc presentation