Bristol Old Vic
Part panto, part Arabian version of EastEnders, writer Sonali Bhattacharyya, and a winning cast have cobbled together a fizzing modern-day fable about the power of storytelling
Here is a charmingly hybrid festive show, part modern retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, part alternative pantomime.
There is a narcissistic tyrant-king (Nicholas Karimi) who is depleting the kingdom of its natural resources for his own selfish ends. After his queen absconds, he takes revenge on womankind by sending out marital orders to female villagers and then consigns those brides to his dungeon.
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