“The tales weaving into one another, with sub-plots and sub-sub-plots leading from the original frame story, are wondrous with magical and mythical elements popping up at every turn,” she says Vinodhini calls the experiment an exploration of the “what was, what if and what might be possibilities of our worlds, internal and external”. “While reading the stories, one is immediately struck by the dynamics of gender and power politics, notions of punishment, racial stereotyping, codes of morality, cultural mores that they contain/convey, that may be alien and surprising, yet all-too familiar to most of us living in these times,” says the playwright and director Vinodhini Vaidynathan. ![]() ![]() To be staged at Museum Theatre in Chennai on May 18, the two-hour play, set in Baghdad, will follow the tales of Shahrazad, the quintessential peddler of stories who narrated one each night for 1001 nights to escape death at the hands of the villainous King Shahriyar. The Tamil play " Aayirathoru Iravugal", a re-telling of the popular “1001 Arabian Nights” promises all that. ![]() CHENNAI: Imagine five actors playing 90 different roles, besides puppets, music, dance and comedy.
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