The performance The Book of Sorrow, inspired by the experience of reading the Armenian literary monument The Book of Lamentations by Grigor Narekatsi, explores medieval Christian lyricism as a tool for overcoming political despair. In the context of today's world—suffocating from wars, climate crisis, and the collapse of democratic institutions—the texts of the 10th-century Armenian poet seem to offer a new way to cope with catastrophes.

During the preparation for the performance, a group of performers will travel to Lake Van, where the monastery where Narekatsi lived and wrote once stood. Today, a mosque stands in its place, and the lake itself was expropriated by the Young Turks after the Armenian Genocide.
One of the key performative elements of the production is that the group intends to bring water from Lake Van to Yerevan to incorporate it into the creation of a theatrical poetic ritual.