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The Book of Sirens - WRF

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

The Book of Sirens was created and performed in ProEnglish Theatre, the theatre that transformed into a bomb shelter in March 2022 in Kyiv. It became an international symbol of cultural resistance. It promotes culture as a main weapon in the fight for basic human values.

The story is partly based on The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Forgotten we Shall Be by Héctor Abad Faciolince. The show also aims to memorialize the experience of the theatre team’s life in bomb shelter in March and share it with the world in order to create a better understanding of each other.

NOTE: This is a filmed performance, shown on screen in Michael Nutt Mainstage.

Whidbey Repertory Festival

The Book of Sirens

March 16, 7:30 PM
March 23, 7:30 PM

I Am Playing Me

March 17, 7:30 PM
March 19, 2:00 PM
March 25, 7:30 PM

Thoreau at Home

March 18, 7:30 PM
March 24, 7:30 PM
March 26, 2:00 PM

Single tickets:

$45 Star Tickets
$30 Standard
$20 tickets by request
Pay What You Will enabled for every performance at the door 1 hr prior to show start.

WEEKEND PASSES AVAILABLE - $80 EACH

Earlier Event: March 19
I Am Playing Me - WRF
Later Event: March 24
Thoreau at Home - WRF

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.