Threshold of Brightness follows a famous and controversial Iranian poet, Forough Farrokhzad, as she is seriously injured in a car crash and enters a dream-like state where she reckons with the ghosts of her past.

Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects

Librettist: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

Aarna and the Silver Cypress is born out of the search of two Iranian women for their own historical identities and home. They started this project by reflecting on the importance of a people’s shared stories, especially
within a long history riddled with imperial conquests, foreign intrusion and domestic imposition of collective amnesia, erasure and fabrications.