Arabian Nights (RSC stage version) (NHB Modern Plays)

by Dominic Cooke (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $3.25

  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 one gift that could save her - the gift of story-telling. Can the young Queen transport the vengeful King to the mystical land Ali Baba, Es-Sindibad the sailor and Princess Parizade? Will her silver-tongued story-telling save her life? A new edition of Dominic Cook's highly successful stage adaptation of the classic tales. Published alongside a brand new production by the Royal Shakespeare company for Christmas 2009.

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.25

  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...

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $12.98

  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 one gift that could save her - the gift of story-telling. Can the young Queen transport the vengeful King to the mystical land Ali Baba, Es-Sindibad the sailor and Princess Parizade? Will her silver-tongued story-telling save her life? A new edition of Dominic Cook's highly successful stage adaptation of the classic tales. Published alongside a brand new production by the Royal Shakespeare company for Christmas 2009.