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Dateline: 11th October, 2009
Christmas Casting at the RSC The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced casting for its Christmas production in Stratford, Arabian Nights, which is adapted and directed by Dominic Cooke and will play in the Courtyard Theatre from 5th December to 30th January. Arabian Nights takes place on the wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning, the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to death like a thousand young brides before her. She has one gift that can save her – the gift of storytelling. This version includes the stories of Ali Baba, Es-Sindibad, The Wife Who Wouldn’t Eat and Envious Sisters which will be told through a mixture of song, dance, puppetry and illusion by a cast of eighteen. Former Royal Shakespeare Company Associate Director Dominic Cooke (now Artistic Director of the Royal Court) returns to the RSC to direct his own adaptation of the tales. This family show, aimed at audiences from seven upwards, was originally created and performed at the Young Vic in 1998 and followed by a successful tour which included the Edinburgh Festival, Dublin and New York. This version will be expanded and developed specially for the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre. Cooke worked on the original tales held in eighteen volumes at the British Library to come up with his adaptation. Playing Queen Shahrazad and making her RSC debut is Ayesha Dharker. She is probably best known to television viewers as Tara in ITV1’s Coronation Street. She played Rani in the original cast of Bombay Dreams in the West End and Sita in the Birmingham Rep/National Theatre production of The Ramayana. Paul Bhattacharjee returns to the RSC to play Vizier. His previous credits for the company include Edward III and The Island Princess in the Swan Theatre. They are joined by Silas Carson, Daniel Cerqueira, Marcus Stephen Rohan Fernando, Kevork Malikyan, Chris Ryman, Amit Shah, Nav Sidhu, Simon Trinder, Rene Zagger, Nathalie Armin, Natalie Dew, Kiran Landa, Jane Leaney, Adura Onashile, Chetna Pandya and Harvey Virdi.
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