The Mystic Rose

Storytelling from Leo Sofer, with music by Sundara Sofer

This performance charts a course through three interwoven stories, showing the challenges of the spiritual journey, in three different ways. 

The first story begins with a young man, lost in the desert, and coming upon a rose of unparalleled beauty…. 

The second story concerns a young sailor, so skilled at her craft that she can sail to any destination, in any conditions. 

But then she discovers a way of travelling without a destination in mind, and a whole new world opens up. 

The third story concerns a Prince and Princess, both besotted with the same dream of the Mystic Rose.

The journey they take to fulfill their dreams is the thread that ties all these three stories together. 

The structure of the story-within-a-story-within-a-story has been used by storytellers for thousands of years to take listeners into a deeper and deeper space of listening and quiet inside. We use this structure to allow our audience to take a journey in themselves, opening up to their own relationship to the object of their deepest desires.

The Mystic Rose is a symbol for this “most wanted” thing, and although we might all have our own path to it, and picture it in different ways, it is ultimately the same for all human beings – a place of intimate rest and beloved beauty, which is also a gift to the world. 

We hope you will join us on a journey to the heart of the Mystic Rose!