Doost (Friend) takes the audience on a mystical journey of poetry, parable, dance, and music.
Date/Time: Mar 25 2016, 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm
Vancouver, The Cultch Historic TheatreCost: $19.05
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A unique ensemble of artists and adherents of the Nimatullahi Sufi order explore the universal essence of mystic poetry including Rumi, Hafez, and Nurbakhsh. Doost is a story about heritage, compassion and community. Through dance, poetry, and music, we explore the borders between the secular and the spiritual, between professionals and community members, and – in the context of a world that is too often hostile and ignorant of Eastern practices – the difference between our understanding of ‘us’ and ‘them’.
In 1995, Camyar Chai founded Neworld Theatre with a vision of creating an artist-driven company that created work that reflected the actual diversity of the community it belongs to: that explored and deconstructed borders, be they artistic, political, or personal. In 2005 Camyar left the company to his friend and co-director, Marcus Youssef. Eleven years later, Camyar returns to Neworld as the creator and co-director of Doost, along with new Neworld Associate Artistic Director, Chelsea Haberlin. Doost emerges from Camyar’s desire to merge his practice as a theatre artist with his spiritual practice as a Sufi. Doost brings together members of the Vancouver Sufi Centre and professionals from the theatre community – they’ll perform the show together. The Canadian Memorial United Church has come on board, too, with an interest in inter-faith dialogue about the role of spirituality in a secular society.
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