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Arabian Night
Arabian Night
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Author: Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by David Tushingham Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays Format: Softcover # of Pages: 96 Pub. Date: 2003 ISBN-10: 1840022981 ISBN-13: 9781840022988 Cast Size: 2 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
Arabian Night (English-language version of Die Arabische
Nacht) is a full-length drama by Roland Schimmelpfennig,
translated by David Tushingham. Brings together five
characters who experience an erotic urban fantasy in an apartment
building where there's a water crisis on the hottest day of the year.
Arabian Night is a sleek and sensual urban thriller from one
of the most acclaimed voices of the German stage.
Arabian Night is set in a claustrophobic tower block
housing complex in a large, western city. Five diverse individuals
connect over the disappearance of their apartment building's water
supply on a hot and enchanted evening ending with a moonlit kiss and
a homicide. Part fairy tale, part noir thriller, Arabian Night
combines imagery from One Thousand and One Nights and Sleeping
Beauty.
Nominated Play of the Year by six German critics in 2001, Actors
Touring Company (ATC) staged the UK premiere of Arabian Night
in 2002, and toured the play throughout the UK. His playwrighting
breakthrough, the play made its New York debut in 2006 at The East
13th Street Theatre.
Cast: 2 female, 3 male
What people say:
"In this delightful fable
Schimmelpfennig shows that the 7th floor of a residential tower block
can be a source of magical realism." — The Guardian
(London)
"A deliciously playful flight
of fancy." — The Evening Standard (London)
"This brief, 75-minute story
suddenly floods that space with a great lost world of rich colour,
intense flavour, howling passion, sudden violence, and sweet erotic
magic." — The Scotsman
"The Arabian Night
by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is
... the kind of piece that will linger in the memory, long after
others have faded ... Memory, fantasy and reality blur as the
audience gets absorbed in an extraordinary central tale, which
ultimately affects all five characters in the play ... the tension
builds until the end, which is shattering (figuratively as well as
literally). It's superior stuff." — The Toronto Star
About the Playwright:
Roland Schimmelpfennig is an internationally acclaimed
German playwright. He has worked as a journalist, translator and
dramaturg. One of the most exciting voices in European drama, his
work has been translated into more than 20 languages.
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