MR Dan Furst

The Rain on the Nile MR Dan Furst

The Rain on the Nile tells one of the master myths of humankind, the story of Aset and Ausar, aka Isis and Osiris, in a play with music and 21st-century theatre light and magic. The play aims to recreate for our time the art and science of the ancient Egyptian ritual theatre, which used precisely combined vibrational frequencies of color, sound, aromas and sacred geometric designs to get the story into our cellular memory, flush out the ancient pain and fear, and lift our communities into the celebration of peace, beauty and freedom. The themes are eternally compelling: King Ausar (Osiris) is murdered by his brother Set and revived by his queen, Aset (Isis) the Birthgiver. Their son Horus grows up to avenge his father in the first version of the Hamlet plot ever to appear on Earth. The story has everything: love and betrayal, courage and sacrifice, bizarre plot twists and surprises, and A resolution unlike anything ever seen in theatre, as the Celebrants -- i.e., the human audience actually decides the outcome of the play. It is an experiment in the Theatre of Light, in which the divine characters are embodied onstage in the bodies of actors and actresses, and also appear in the space above the plying area as life-size, full-color 3D light images. The play combines ancient mythic characters and themes with modern technologies of theatre light, sound and magic. The play is subtitled Holistic Theatre for the Second Renaissance because it comes as the Neteru, the powerful Divine energies of ancient Egypt, emerge into our consciousness again at the moment of our planetary awakening at the beginning of the Age of Aquarius.