‘Legend of Lovers’ is based on the Greek legends of Orpheus and Eurydice. Set in the 1950s, the play tells the story through the eyes of Eurydice (played by Shazahn), a fairytale character who has had a chequered past. Mikhail Sen plays Orpheus, her jealous lover…..

One of AP’s protégés, Asif Alif Baig wrote the songs for this production.

Shazahn, AP’s daughter who had never been directed by her father was keen to savour what Raëll, Quasar, and Sharon had had the privilege of enjoying.

AP and Shazahn selected ‘Legend Of Lovers’, a play about a young girl who travels from the realm of life to the world of death. After she accidentally dies, Death, a mysterious cloaked man gives her another chance to enter the world of the living. But sadly, circumstances snatch her away and she loses her life for the second time.

The story was unique. AP was fascinated by staging the two different dimensions of Life and Death through aerodynamics. Alas, the theatre the play was being staged in had technical limitations in installing cranes and flying trapezes.

Nevertheless AP experimented with 3D effects on stage and he fitted speakers along the audiences’ seats to create an eerie quadrophonic sound effect in the world of Death. And he used a huge gauze background as a screen to make people disappear.

He also invented an effect that truly left people stumped: Shazahn sits on her bed and as she throws a small sheet in the air … she vanishes.