ECSTASY I A WATER FABLE

by Denmo ibrahim

Directed by Evren Odcikin
Produced & Commissioned by Golden Thread Productions
Supported by: TBA New Works Fund, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Wallace Gerbode Foundation.

In Ecstasy, stories are written in water, spells are cast through washing, and to drink either creates your life or rips it from you. In this dangerous water world, three uniquely lost characters struggle to remember and pray to forget. A man devotes his life’s work to a tragically simple task. A young woman is haunted by past images not her own. And an elder, submerged in a flood of old pictures, fights to remember a story that slowly seduces her into it. Inspired by 9th century Sufi fable, "When the Waters Were Changed" and created through a year-long development process with the Water Project ensemble