Tales from the Arabian Nights
$28.45
- Paperback
52 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2019
Summary
In this delightful adaptation of the classic tales, Donna Abela brings centuries-old tradition into the modern era with a play that is timeless yet utterly contemporary.
Young courtier Shahrazad poses as a ‘Smuggle’ (a refugee) about to be executed by the despotic King Shahrayar. To save her life, she tells the king a story he can’t resist. It’s a tale of magic and transformation, demons and lovers, adventure and terror.
Delaying her fate by one more night each time, Shahrazad…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760622756 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760622753 |
| Author: | Donna Abela |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 52 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 74g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 208mm x 137mm |
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About The Author
Donna Abela
Donna is an award-winning playwright. Her play Jump For Jordan won the 2013 Griffin Playwriting Award and the 2015 Australian Writers’ Guild’s AWGIE Award for Stage. It is on the HSC Drama Syllabus, was one of three Australian plays presented in Spanish at the 2018 Women Playwright’s International Conference in Santiago de Chile, and was the creative component of her 2016 doctoral thesis entitled Dialogic Interplay: a Strategy for Representing Difference and Cultural Diversity on Stage.
Other recent plays include:
- Monkey … Journey to the West (2014 Brisbane Festival, 2015 Melbourne Festival, 2015 Sydney Opera House programs)
- Spirit (2016 AWGIE Award for Radio)
- Aurora’s Lament (2012 AWGIE Award for Radio)
- Mrs Macquarie’s Cello (2010 AWGIE Award for Radio)
Donna supports the development of new performance works, and leads processes that leverage the creative proficiency and resilience of writers. In the last year, she has taught, mentored or provided dramaturgy to over a hundred student, emerging and professional writers for screen and stage.
She is a founding member and board member of PYT | Fairfield. Along with Vanessa Bates, Hilary Bell, Noëlle Janaczeska, Verity Laughton, Ned Manning and Cath Zimdahl, she is also a founding member of 7-ON, a playwrights’ alliance which advocates for playwrights and initiates production and publishing projects.
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