Reading, Pa.- The Albright College Domino Players will open the 2010-2011 season with a production of The Arabian Nights on October 1, 2010 at 8 p.m. in the Wachovia Theatre, Center for the Arts. The show will also be performed October 2, 7, 8, and 9 at 8 p.m. and a special luncheon theatre will be presented October 3 at 2:30 p.m. The luncheon is at 1 p.m.
This performance, directed by Terri Mastrobuono, is also part of a year-long celebration of “Women in the Arts” at Albright College. The price for adult tickets at the door is $12 ($9 in advance) and $5 for students. To purchase tickets please call Albright College box office at 610-921-7547.
This stage play, written by Tony-Award winner Mary Zimmerman, dramatizes a contemporary version of an age-old story of sex and violence. King Shahryah, who was wronged by a woman in his past, marries a new queen every night and has her executed in the morning. When Scheherezade is forced to be his next “queen” she tells him a story that night. Wanting to know how it ends, the king allows her to live another night, then another, and another after that. Night after night, she spins stories of romance, adventure, magic, and bawdy humor, but will her stories intrigue the king long enough to avoid her fate?
Zimmerman is a professor of performance studies at Northwestern University. Aside from Arabian Nights (1992), she has taken on other forms of epic storytelling, including Homer’s The Odyssey and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. She has won numerous awards including the MacArther Fellowship in 1998 and the 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Metamorphoses. She has worked with the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago for more than 20 years and is also part of the artistic team for the Goodman Theatre, also in Chicago.
This year Albright’s Center for the Arts celebrates “Women in the Arts.” The center has chosen to focus this season – 90 years after women in America received full enfranchisement – on women and the arts to explore gender as both a potential limitation and source of inspiration in theatre, music, fashion and visual arts.
The Center for the Arts is located on the Albright College campus at 13th and Bern Streets, Reading, Pa. For more information or disabled assistance, please call 610-921-7256, or visit www.albright.edu/centerforthearts/.
Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,670 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.
