Cycle 22 alum Avi A. Amon was in residence with Target Margin Theater as a Lead Artist in their Sindbad Lab with three other talented theater-makers: Stephanie Weeks, Kareem Fahmy, and Moe Yousuf. Together, they sculpted a performance festival which dismantled and rebuilt the classic Sindbad tales from The One Thousand and One Nights.
Avi's piece, INSHALLAH/MASHALLAH, is a scored-through installation of songs and sounds - a Sindbad painting 'you look' at with your ears in a live show using voice, synthesizers, an old piano, and at least 24 speakers. It ran at the beginning of June.
There are way too many Sindbads! An inter-dimensional experiment gone horribly awry or a successful Ponzi Scheme? Which Sindbad are you destined to be? Part sound installation, part concept album, INSHALLAH/MASHALLAH explores the powers and problems of myth in cultural narrative via sound, song, and sensory manipulation. Come hear, O fortunate queens and kings….