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The grief of Kamala and Sylvia

A performance that blends theatre and poetry celebrates the last works of two stellar poetesses plagued by loneliness

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Meeta Bagwe plays Das

Meeta Bagwe plays Das

In the days before her death, poet Sylvia Plath's works were testimony to the loneliness that plagued her. In poems from the collection Ariel, she makes verse and death inseparable. These works, along with the last few poems written by Indian writer Kamala Das just six months before her death in 2009, have been selected for a poetic play. The hybrid format blurs the lines between poetry and theatre.

Director Omkar Bhatkar says, "Both came to be regarded as confessional poets for their style, but what appealed to me was how their writing consisted of vivid descriptions of pain, menstruation, a woman trapped in a man's world and the never-ending search for love, physical intimacy and most importantly, death."

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Sharmila Valsekar Kadne plays Plath

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