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Rumi's MATHNAVI 2005 OPEN THEATRE/DC Photos by Page Carr

Cast of Rumi's MATHNAVI: Jai Khalsa, Lee Ordeman, Elizabeth Jernigan, Jamahl Rahmaan, Brandon Welch, Nick Scott, Bette Cassat,  Kim Curtis: "The Pear Tree of Illusion".  The Hartke Theatre, Washington DC 2005 tour.

"The Bedouin and his Wife" Nick Scott and Elizabeth Jernigan.  In background above, Bette Cassatt as "The Seeker."

[A]bsolutely remarkable and memorable! ... When I first read the script, I thought that it would be impossible to have all of that in one play.  It was as if I had gone to a party, and had been offered an entire pot of gourmet food that I had to finish.  But ... with every new bite O felt even hungrier ....  The directing, the acting, the music and choreography was endowed with a complex simplicity or simple complexity!  It was all very inspiring and enlightening.  It felt as if the actors analyzed Rumi's stories, lifting the veils one after another.                                                                                                                             --Lida Saeedian, author, and Rumi translator

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