While Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night has inspired music, poetry, films as well as other artworks across the world, the common man is mostly unaware about this influential Dutch, post-Impressionist artist’s life despite his fame as a genius after his early death in 1890. A new play attempts to understand his life and works in a unique way. 

“The seed of this idea was sown when I started looking at Van Gogh’s paintings in a book about Impressionism. In America, I would visit museums that housed his collections. At The MOMA [The Museum of Modern Art] in New York, I saw Starry Night, and that changed me. It was nothing like what we see in books or on the Internet. The colours were richer, and moved me to tears,” recalls Deshik Vansadia, director and solo performer of Vincent which will be staged this weekend.