Arabian Night
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 12, 2006
Closed Jul 1, 2006
Opened Jun 12, 2006
Closed Jul 1, 2006
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The Play Company presents the New York premiere of Arabian Night, by Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated from German by David Tushingham. Directed by Trip Cullman, Arabian Night is an erotic urban fantasy by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwrights. This nocturnal adventure, set in an anonymous housing complex, is part fairy tale, part noir thriller and part nightmare. It tells the story of five people whose destinies become inextricably intertwined on a hot summer night. When the building's water supply mysteriously disappears, they are all drawn to the apartment of a sleeping beauty, where they meet their fate.
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Surreal and oddly entertaining, Roland Schimmelpfennig's Arabian Night is a somewhat insubstantial 65-minute work that is aptly billed as "an erotic urban fantasy." The majority of the play takes place in a modern-day apartment building in an unnamed Western European or American city. (The play was originally written in German, and is nicely translated here by David Tushingham.) However, as its title indicates, it also incorporates a vision of an Arab land that has more in common with what might be found in one of Scheherazade's 1001 tales than with any kind of real-world locale. It's the quintessential Orient of mystery, where girls are kidnapped to become part of a sheik's harem, curses ha[...]