Ritual Music to Cure a Lover

Friday Sept 13th

We are bringing in a one-actor play by Iranian playwright Shahin Sayadi. We believe in this play. It is powerful stuff. We are proud to give it, and writer/actor Shahin, a place to share this story. 

This is your post-Winnipeg-Fringe 5 star find.

“Ritual Music to Cure Lover” is a story about love and pain and our innate human yearning to move away from the lives of our forefathers and to make something uniquely our own. Haven’t we all done that? Moved with time somehow? To find our own way, contrasting with the world we came from. Shahin’s story breaks a lot of things apart. He stands at the cracking point of tradition and his own desire. 

This story is set in a fishing village on the coast of Iran, a place unmoved by time. A young boy yearns for his father’s love, but his father still mourns the loss of his beloved wife in childbirth. Although he has cared for the boy and helped him to grow into the man he now is, he found it almost impossible to show him love. The father considers the son to have been the murderer of his wife. 

The boy grows strong and learns the ancient trade of diving for pearls. Diving further and deeper than anyone to prove himself and win his father’s love, nearly drowning in the process. 

One day he falls in love with a woman, a stranger who comes to the village already pregnant and intent on making a life for herself there. And so the battle between tradition and modern life is set in motion. A woman alone and pregnant taking charge of her own future and a son fighting his father’s hatred of his past.

You know that feeling, like, “Wow I have just witnessed something amazing.” That’s what we’re talking about here. You are invited, as always. 

Doors - 7:00pm
Show - 8:00pm

All Ages

$25

All tickets subject to service fees