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One Thousand and One Nights " review by Michael Billington

Royal Lyceum, EdinburghOne can divide theatre, broadly, into two categories: narrative and dramatic. The former is expansive and would include events like Peter Brook's The Mahabharata and the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby and The Canterbury Tales: the latter is distillatory and contains the work of Ibsen, Chekhov and Pinter. But, although my preference is for the latter, the former has a cumulative power as proved by…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AM on August 22, 2011

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