Dominic Cooke Libri

Adaptation of much-love thriller about racism by award-winning children's author.

Wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning the new Queen Sharazad is to be put to death like a thousand young brides before her. She has the one gift that can save her - the gift of storytelling. If she can occupy the King with her stories then she can avoid the executioner's block.

Arabian Nights Dominic Cooke "Arabian Nights focuses on seven of the 1,001 tales that Sharazad told her royal husband Shahrayar each morning to stave off her threatened execution. "It's been a long time wince I've heard a theatre audience stamp and whistle at a curtain call, but that's precisely how the punters greeted Dominic Cooke's vibrant staging of these classic Eastern folk tales..."