The Arabian Nights

By Mary Zimmerman

Performance Information

Director
Sarah Carleton

Scenic Design JEFF MODEREGER

Costume Design JENNY FULTON

Lighting Design LAUREN GLOVER

Sound Designer JOHN B.FORBES

Choreographer EMILY EVANS

Original Music Composed by PATRICIA JULIEN

Production Stage Manager RIVKA KELLY

Cast:

LIDA BENSON	Scheherazade	BRETT PELLEGRINO	Desert Thief and others
ANDREW CLARK	Abu al-Hasan and others	TAYLOR PEROTTA	Butcher and others
CATO CRUMBLEY	Perfect Love and others	MAX REDMAN	Wazir and others
EMILY EVANS	Dancing Girl and others	DIRK JONATHAN RODRICKS	Shahryar and others
KODY GRASSETT	Harun al-Rashid and others	HOPE SALVAN	Third Sage and others
ADIAN HOLDING	Madman and other	EMILY SMITH	Dunyazade and others
MATT JENKS	Clarinetist and others	GRACE TRAPNELL	Sympathy the Learned and others
JONAH KASPER	Jester and others

Synopsis:

Experience the power of storytelling in Tony award winner Mary Zimmerman's brilliant adaptation of one of literature's greatest masterpieces, "One Thousand and One Nights". The play weaves an imaginative and entertaining tapestry of sight and sound that celebrate theatre's ritualistic and narrative ancestry. The young heroine Scheherazade frantically tells stories in order to save her life from the brutal, embittered and ruthless King Shahryar. Will her wiles change the bitterness of the King's heart and lead her to freedom or will she meet the same end of all that have come before?