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Article: `Arabian Nights' adapted // Trinity Square to tell tales for 14 shows
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 7, 1987
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Scherazade was a talker. She stretched out 200-some tales over
1,001 Arabian nights to convince her sultan bridegroom not to have
her executed.
Trinity Square Ensemble has put together an original adaptation
- Chicago's first, in recent memory - of "The Arabian Nights" that
will run just 14 nights. The storytelling began Thursday night and
will continue through Aug. 30 at the Raven Theatre, 6931 N. Clark
(328-0330).
"There is no script that we could locate," says Deborah Stewart
of Trinity Square. "So our cast of six improvised. . . . We kept the
Arabian style and costumes, more or less, but this production is
updated in that it's not Moslem-oriented. We've taken out a lot of
those ...