TWO THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS - 2002
S Y N O P S I S
Our tale begins at the court of Shah’n’Shah, where from the four corners of earth people join to pay homage to the king.
King Shah’n’Shah crowns his sons Shehrayar and Shahzaman. But betrayal soon poisons both sons’ courts. Shehrayar confronts his wife the queen in the very act of infidelity. Maddened by jealous rage, he decides to wed a young woman from the kingdom every evening and kill her at sunrise. Then came Sheherazade. Addicted to her stories, night after night she cures Shehrayar of his misogyny, teaches him to love, and lifts the curse. It is a new dawn.
DANCE EUROPE
Caracalla Dance Theatre
Emma Manning meets the Caracalla family - the driving force behind the Middle East’s leading dance theatre company, which is bringing its exotic new dance fantasy, ‘Two Thousand and One Nights’, to London.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Don’t call it bellydancing
How did a wasp on a woman’s naked body inspire Lebanon’s finest choreographer? Ismene Brown went to Beirut to find out.
DANCE EUROPE
Caracalla Dance Theatre in 2001 Nights
The dancers skim over the stage in one breath of surging humanity - we’d give our teeth to join in.
SUNDAY EXPRESS
3 STARS for Caracalla
The company of dancers stomped their way into our hears by loving every minute of it.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Sinuous undulation
I doubt the London stage has seen such textile beauty, such opulent headdresses, such marvellous clashes of brocade and braid, of indigo velvets and jewelled chiffons, since the last time the Caracalla Dance Theatre from Lebanon were here.