Repertory

I Wake Up Empty (2002)

I Wake up Empty is the third in a series of performances based on the poems of the 13th Century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. This piece is an address from the devotee to the Beloved; an ecstatic plea of longing tinged with brokenness and doubt.

Credits

• Written & Performed by Doug Stapleton
• Text sources: Jelaluddin Rumi, Constantine Cavafy