The Verdigris Project presents...

Avrielle's Guide to Love and Lust (For the Misguided)

2026 Season - The Masks We Wear

Through a series of interwoven love stories, Avrielle's Guide to Love and Lust (For the Misguided) explores how every act of intimacy connects us to something larger. This play reveals one truth: we are all fragments of the same unfinished heart.

Avrielle's Guide to Love and Lust (For the Misguided) is not one story but many: a constellation of intimate scenes and shards of memory that, together, reveal how love repeats itself across bodies. While at first this play seems to address separate stories, we end up learning that they are iterations of the same ache. Characters slide into one another's speech, and lines echo across scenes until the audience can feel the same discomfort through different voices.

Poster for Avrielle's Guide to Love and Lust (For the Misguided)

Full Recording

Filmed by Patrick Sunner and Ian McDonald

Production Documentation

Zakelina Ioannou is Avrielle
Zakelina Ioannou is Avrielle
Nada Jawad is Gray
Nada Jawad is Gray
Kailea Saplan is Amelie
Kailea Saplan is Amelie
Abby Langh is Ganimede
Abby Langh is Ganimede
Anna Deak-Calin is Daniel
Anna Deak-Calin is Daniel
Evie Rosa Butler is Arthur Paris
Evie Rosa Butler is Arthur Paris
Hans Probst is Narvak, Destroyer of the Seas
Hans Probst is Narvak, Destroyer of the Seas
Ege Atila (Director) in action with Kailea Saplan (Amelie) and Evie Rosa Butler (Arthur Paris)
Ege Atila (Director) in action with Kailea Saplan (Amelie) and Evie Rosa Butler (Arthur Paris)
Hans Probst (Narvak, Destroyer of the Seas) with Abby Langh (Ganimede)
Hans Probst (Narvak, Destroyer of the Seas) with Abby Langh (Ganimede)
Nada Jawad (Gray) holding Kailea Saplan (Amelie)
Nada Jawad (Gray) holding Kailea Saplan (Amelie)

Photographed by Madeline Rounds

Cast

Zakelina IoannouAvrielle
Nada JawadGray
Kailea SaplanAmelie
Hans ProbstNarvak, Destroyer of the Seas
Abby LanghGanimede
Anna Deak-CalinDaniel
Evie Rosa ButlerArthur Paris

Production Team

Ege AtilaDirector
Jules GautierProducing Playwright
Kelly Lin HayesScenic Designer & Production Manager
Madison BradySound Designer
Clay PistoLighting Designer
Flavie Mathé-DuditCostume Designer
Ali ErenGraphic Designer
Jeremy KaplanWorkshop's Stage Manager