Bigtan and Teresh, two extremely minor characters from the Book of Esther, emerge from the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem to find themselves exiled, lovelorn, and pawns in someone else's story. Their witty tale explores grief, free will, the constraints of religious texts, and what to do when the walls of your book close in around you.

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The projection design traces that revelation through light and shadow, the stage slowly materializing as pages, letters, and scroll, until the book itself becomes the set. A visual exploration of what it means to live, and grieve, and resist, inside a written world.