One Thousand and One Nights: 2009-2011

Commissioned by Luminato Festival, Toronto, Founding Joint Artistic Director Tim Supple adapted the Arabic folk classic into six hours of erotic, violent, philosophical, surreal and funny theatre; written by the Lebanese author Hanan Al Shaykh.

Over two tumultuous years Supple travelled to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, the Gulf, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, searching for the true character of this infamous work and meeting and working with hundreds of theatre artists.

Despite the challenges that arose from the uprisings of 2011, we rehearsed for three months in an old Palais in Fez, Morocco – a city hardly changed since the time of the Nights.

To find out more about the production, see here.