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Arabian Nights - Neil Duffield

Arabian Nights

By: Neil Duffield

Paperback | 11 December 2018

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May the legends of old be lessons to the people of our time, so that a man may see those things which befell others beside himself, and wonder. When Sheherazad is brought to the palace to be the Sultan's new bride, her very life depends upon her skill as a storyteller. She tells him tales of lost cities and buried treasure, of slave girls and robbers, of genies in bottles and evil sorcerors. But will it be enough to save her? The stories of the Arabian Nights originate from Persia, India and Arabia, and date back more than a thousand years. Neil Duffield has combined elements of many of them, keeping alive the excitement and humour to produce a show which transports the audience into a world of myth and legend where fantasy and reality can never be separated.
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"Neil Duffield has the magic touch when it comes to dramatising myths and legends. He excels himself...with this comic and enchanting story...such exuberance. It teems with life and atmosphere. . . It is such a treat." The Stage "[The] adaptation mixes ancient and modern and elements of several of the Tales." The Stage "Like a Persian miniature in its case, this. . . is the quintessence of the Neil Duffield storytelling style. . . I recommend it to everyone." The Sunday Times "Neil Duffield's play is both robustly comic and serious in its consideration of smart women who know how to get the upper hand, brotherly relationships and greed... There may be fabulous treasures and genies in abundance, but there is no magic formula to this play: it is merely simple, straight-forward storytelling, done very well... Duffield has interwoven the familiar and less familiar so you get a real sense of a never-ending story, and he has the gift of combining the accessible and down to earth with the mythic in a single sentence. It is a small show, but one of transformations and pleasures constantly reminding us that when one story ends another begins." The Guardian "a breath-taking 90 minutes with bags of pace and laughs a-plenty... The familiar story of Sherezade's story-telling guile being used to outwit a blood-thirsty and misogynistic Sultan who takes wives for just one night before dispatching them with a sword in the morning, works on many levels... For an intimate seasonal show, it's hard to imagine anything more satisfying than Arabian Nights." Birmingham Post "Duffield's...best yet. A good story, colourful and exciting, clearly told but with ingenious details. A treat." The Times "Like a Persian miniature in its case, this delightful show is the quintessence of the Neil Duffield storytelling style... I recommend it to everyone." The Sunday Times

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