Modern Times Stage Company is proud to announce the world premiere of The Caged Bird Sings, specially presented by the Aga Khan Museum in association with Theatre ARTaud, from June 10-26, 2024 in the Museum’s Courtyard. A re-imagining and radical adaptation of Rumi’s “Masnavi”, The Caged Bird Sings reveals a cage within a cage as this surreal piece unfolds for audiences in the round.

An original piece written by Rouvan Silogix, Rafeh Mahmud, and Ahad Lakhani, The Caged Bird Sings holds three prisoners: two star-crossed lovers and scientists, Rumi and Jin, who share a cell with Sal, a mysterious vagrant. As they navigate their new-found reality and reconcile their past lives, they are haunted by ghosts and demons of their own making. The piece explores Sufi mysticism, ideas of Fanafillah, the prisons – literal and metaphorical - that we are put in, that we put ourselves in, and that we create ourselves, and how and whether it’s possible to escape such prisons.