In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. This production unearthed the true character of the One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. The web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and adapted for children in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning.
Dramatised and directed by Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple, with stories adapted by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, and commissioned by the Luminato Festival, Dash Arts present one of the world’s great folk story-cycles.
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