Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati NGO present
AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)
by Sona Tatoyan in collaboration with Jared Mezzocchi
directed by Jared Mezzocchi
featuring Sona Tatoyan, a tribe of Karagöz Puppets, and oud player Ara Dinkjian
Syrian-Armenian-American theatre and film artist Sona Tatoyan, stranded in her family’s abandoned Aleppo home during the Syrian war, discovers her great-great-grandfather’s handmade Karagöz shadow puppets, salvaged from the Armenian Genocide. Guided by the storyteller Scherazad and her puppets and joined by renowned oud player Ara Dinkjian, Sona alchemizes a radiant truth: stories, when reimagined, possess the power to transmute trauma to healing.
Get $5 off tickets with code 25AZAD at goldenthread.org
April 11–May 3, 2025
Potrero Stage (1695 18th Street, San Francisco)