Tricycle theatre, LondonScan the schedules and you find'll versions of The Arabian Nights cropping up all over the UK. This particular one, by Mary Zimmerman, was first seen in Chicago in 1992; it was clearly driven by a desire to remind American audiences, in the wake of the Gulf War, of the diversity of Arabic culture. And even though it has lost none of its political impulse, it emerges as a beguiling piece o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PM on December 9, 2012