Book of Dew

Edinburgh Festival Fringe | August 2024
Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco | January 2025

A miniature choreography of visual poetry, objects, and body parts, Book of Dew takes place on a 6 x 6’ wall where small doors open and close to reveal fleeting glimpses of visceral imagery. At the intersection of puppetry, choreography, and non-linear storytelling, the intimate performance weaves a spider web of fantastical fragments: water droplets, a river in the air, glistening stardust – the dew of transient experience that emerges and evaporates under sunrise.

45 minutes. Premiered at ZOO Playground, Edinburgh.

PRODUCTION TEAM

conceived and directed by
technical directing
composition/sound design
additional music composition
additional puppetry design
board operation/crew

performance

voiceover performance

Sid Zhang and Connor Lifson
Daniel Cadigan
Sebastian Blue Hochman
Isaiah Brodie
Lana Tleimat
Claire Morton

Sid Zhang
Connor Lifson
Anna Zheng

PRESS

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- Mervyn Stutter’s “Pick of the Fringe”

“An exquisite capsule production…
A delightful opportunity to immerse yourself in a spiderweb of natural elements and to contemplate our world through fantastical visual and aural beauty.”
- Everything Theatre

“Part childrens’s bedtime story, and part theater of revelation,
it is a delightful 55 minutes where you follow the story of Spider, Moon and Dew in your own private cinema.”
“You felt immersed in a gentle world of enchantment. This is a Hidden Gem.”
- FringeReview

“Full of exquisitely detailed, surreal and wondrous ideas,”
“Zhang and Lifson’s eye for a simple, gorgeous image has a childlike curiosity and originality.”
- The List

“Zhang and Lifson have the makings of something truly special.”
- The Scotsman

“The entire presentation is very delicate, dreamlike…Timely and delivered in a gentle, quiet way.”
- Theatre Travels

“Quietly profound…
The sensory immersion is brought to life as a series of storylines unfold from behind the wall, poetic and musical,
moving the audience with its visual and audial motion as prismatic hues of light burst forth.”
- TheatreStorm

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