Arabian Nights
From: Thursday, 23rd November 2006
To: Saturday, 13 January 2007
Our Review: 
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Our Review:
11 December 2006
At a Creation Theatre production the excitement begins with the venue and what better setting for Shahrazad to weave her tales than in the exotic glamour of the Mirror Tent?
There’s music too, to enhance the mood – and bring it bang up to date with a bhangra-type beat. So the audience is already on that magic carpet when the eight-strong company take the circular stage platform, around which they are seated at tables.
The storytelling has a fine theatrical pedigree. The version used is Dominic Cooke’s acclaimed adaptation for the Young Vic and the method of collective narration, passing the ‘ball’ from player to player and allowing actors to refer to the characters they’re playing in the third person, was first perfected by Shared Experience, who told some of these very tales back in the 1970s.
The overarching story is Shahrazad’s own. Despite the cruel edict of a royal husband, who has been betrayed by his first wife, that his subsequent wives will have no chance ...
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