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Global Mosaic Foundation’s Main Stage Season

Aesthetic
of Awe

Four works. One proposition.

Four works about what remains when suffering can no longer make us innocent.

Across mythic fable, intimate contemporary drama and a work shaped by the theatrical heritage of each place, Aesthetic of Awe brings people to the limits of the stories they tell about themselves. A painful past, a declaration of love, a sincerely held truth: each meets another person whose life it cannot explain away. What follows demands a choice, and that choice carries a cost.

Awe begins where consolation ends.

Aesthetic of Awe season announcement: two tall mirrored panels standing on a dark stage under a single beam, one reflecting the light, the other showing its bare timber frame. The title reads Aesthetic of Awe, above the line Awe begins where consolation ends.

The seasonFour works

  1. IThe Story Of Simplea play by Adam Kay
  2. IIOrlin’s HuntA play by Georgie Castilla
  3. IIIEcho’s SoulA play by Georgie Castilla
  4. IVThe Living Canona work in dialogue with each place
The Story Of Simple key art: translucent dirty-bone planes standing in black space, the title crossing their seams and changing alignment as it goes.

I

The Story Of Simple

a play by Adam Kay

Everyone in the room is telling the truth. The truths do not agree.

After three months in an acute psychiatric unit, Eli is ready to leave. In one room, four people tell the truth — and discover that truth alone cannot decide what any of them owes.

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Orlin’s Hunt poster: a life-size unicorn puppet hung in darkness, split down its length — one half pale sculpted hide, the other dark and shredded — stitched together with red thread over a brass armature, an arrow through it and a bow lying below.

IIThe Innerwild Fables

Orlin’s Hunt

A play by Georgie Castilla

What would you destroy to be free of your past?

Orlin seeks Oblivion after hurting a younger boy. The hunt for a unicorn’s horn promises escape, but each attempt leaves more lives damaged. Through live performance and life-size puppetry, a dark fairytale confronts the violence of those who suffer and the control exercised by those who love them.

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Echo’s Soul poster: a glass tank of dark water holding a floating crown of white flowers, their stems trailing down to a black garment and a small red glass heart.

IIIThe Innerwild Fables

Echo’s Soul

A play by Georgie Castilla

He calls it love. Listen to what he leaves out.

A storyteller offers a fable of a fisherman and his abandoned Soul. Beneath its longing for reunion lies a refusal the Soul cannot accept. Loosely inspired by a short story by Oscar Wilde, Echo’s Soul brings the desire to possess another person into collision with the need to be believed.

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The Living Canon poster: a gilded proscenium arch standing on a bare stage, a woman in black with her hand on its frame, a raw linen drape hanging within and earth scattered across the boards.

IV

The Living Canon

a work in dialogue with each place

A work drawn in dialogue with the theatrical heritage of each place we inhabit.

Not a fixed title but a living practice, adapting in response to where the company is working.

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The season is in development. Dates, venues and casting will be announced.

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