Global Mosaic Foundation’s Main Stage Seasonpresents
Echo’s Soul
Part of The Innerwild Fables
He calls it love. Listen to what he leaves out.
A dark fairytale about possession and the stories that make it sound like love.
A man tells a story of a fisherman who cast away his Soul for love. It is a story of abandonment, longing and the need to return. But the teller needs something from the person listening, and his account cannot be taken on trust.
The story
In the tale he tells, Echo falls in love with the son of the Sea-folk King and parts with his Soul to follow his beloved beneath the sea. The abandoned Soul sets out to return to him.
But Echo’s desires do not stand still. What the Soul calls reunion begins to demand something Echo will not give. The longing to belong becomes a claim upon another life.
As the telling falters, another struggle emerges: over who may leave, whose refusal counts, and who gets to say what happened. Every appeal for sympathy draws the listener closer to what the storyteller is trying to conceal.
The theatrical world
The story changes under the pressure of being heard.
Myth and confession occupy the same stage. A tale of sea kingdoms and a wandering Soul becomes an encounter between a storyteller and a listener whose belief matters. Contradictions, evasions and moments of exposed need disturb the fable, asking the audience to listen for the distance between what is said and what was done.
When someone says they could not let go, what are they asking us to forgive?
In development for Aesthetic of Awe.
Dates, venues and casting will be announced.
The Innerwild Fables
The Innerwild Fables is a series of dark fairytales for adults by Georgie Castilla. Across a shared mythic world, creatures, bargains and transformations expose the intimate workings of love, fear and power. Each standalone play confronts its characters with the consequences of what they do to others, including what they do in the name of protection or belonging.
Main Stage Season
Aesthetic of Awe