ARABIAN NIGHTS
Presented by Northern Kentucky University
Feb. 20-March 2
Highland Heights
Directed by Brian Robertson
Cast: Terrance McCraney as Shahryar, Cynthea Mercado as Scheherezade, Andrea Squires as Dunyazade, Taylor Greatbatch as Harun Al-Rashid/Others, Rhys Boatwright as Wazir/Others, Jack Manion as The Greengrocer/Others, Abby Liebowitz as The Butcher/Others, Robert Tieman as The Pastrycook/Others/Saz, Andrew Burns as The Jester/Others/Composer, Kyle Taylor as The Madman/Others, Ellie Chancellor as Perfect Love/Others, Ashley Piller as Girl in the Garden/Others, Jennifer Rhodenhiser as The Other Woman/Others/Clarinetist, Emily Fry as Sympathy the Learned/Others, Chris Darnell as Abu Al-Hasan/Others & Adam Razavi as Ishak of Mosul/Others
Based on Powys Mather’s translation of The Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Twelve-member cast enacts Scheherazade’s tales of love, lust, comedy, and dreams Scheherazade’s cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel ruler Shahryar, from murdering her, and after 1,001 nights, Shahryar is cured of his madness, and Scheherazade returns to her family. This adaptation offers a wonderful blend of the lesser-known tales from Arabian Nights with the recurring theme of how the magic of storytelling holds the power to change people. The final scene brings the audience back to a modern day Baghdad with the wail of air raid sirens threatening the rich culture and history that are embodied by these tales.
- Thu-Sat, Feb. 20-22 at 8pm
- Sun, Feb. 23 at 3pm
- Wed-Sat, Feb. 26-March 1 at 8pm
- Sun, March 2 at 3pm
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