Golden Thread Productions presents the World Premiere of AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf)

Golden Thread Productions presents
World Premiere 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 Dinkjiana
co-production with Hakawati

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, the puppets unveil bawdy, hilarious, and haunting tales that transport Sona through an intergenerational, psychedelic journey, alchemizing a radiant truth: stories, when reimagined, possess the power to transmute trauma to healing.

April 11, 2025 – May 3, 2025
Potrero Stage 1695 18th Street, San Francisco, CA
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The creative team for AZAD (the rabbit and the wolf) includes world-renowned oud player Ara Dinkjian, Karagöz creative consultant and puppet maker Ayhan Hulagu, puppeteers Vinny Mraz and Kalli Siringas, scenic designer Marcelo Martínez García, costume designer Valérie Thérèse Bart, lighting designer Betsy Chester, sound designer Evdoxia Ragkou, multimedia designer Camilla Tassi,  immersive designer Isaac Saboohi, choreographer and movement designer Chelsea Didier, and stage manager Olivia Fletcher. Aleppo footage and sound was captured by Antoine Makdis. Documentary Inserts were created by filmmaker Emily Jo West. Golden Thread and Hakawati would like to thank producers Bill Pullman and Noubar and Anna Afeyan for their ongoing support and championing of this project.