Where: Aga Khan Museum, Courtyard, 77 Wynford Drive, North York
When: June 10-26, 2024
Cost: Ticket Price: $36 Regular; $32.40 Friends, Students, Seniors and Arts Workers. Include a contribution to support Canadian artists: $55 Regular; $49.50 Friends, Students, Seniors and Arts Workers. Limited number of rush tickets will be available at the door. Tickets include same-day Museum admission. Can be purchase online at agakhanmuseum.org/cagedbird
Details: The Caged Bird Sings, specially presented by the Aga Khan Museum in association with Theatre ARTaud, is a re-imagining and radical adaptation of Rumi’s “Masnavi”, The Caged Bird Sings reveals a cage within a cage as this surreal piece unfolds for audiences in the round.
An original piece written by Rouvan Silogix, Rafeh Mahmud, and Ahad Lakhani, The Caged Bird Sings holds three prisoners: two star-crossed lovers and scientists, Rumi and Jin, who share a cell with Sal, a mysterious vagrant. As they navigate their new-found reality and reconcile their past lives, they are haunted by ghosts and demons of their own making. The piece explores Sufi mysticism, ideas of Fanafillah, the prisons – literal and metaphorical – that we are put in, that we put ourselves in, and that we create ourselves, and how and whether it’s possible to escape such prisons.
Directed by Rafeh Mahmud, The Caged Bird Sings will star Navtej Sandhu, Mikaela Lily Davies and Rouvan Silogix, with Scenic Design by Waleed Ansari, Sound Design & Score by John Gzowski and Costume Design by Niloufar Ziaee.
More Info: www.agakhanmuseum.org