THE NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE OF A NEW PLAY BY JASON GROTE

Mixing the labyrinthine wordplay of Jorge Louis Borges with the ideas of Edward Said and the slapstick comedy of Monty Python, Jason Grote’s 1001 hyperlinks Scheherazade’s tales to contemporary Manhattan. Time blurs and reality is fractured and reconstructed in a world inhabited by characters whose identity shifts unpredictably and deliriously. With rollicking storytelling, a touch of magic realism, and even a little trip-hop music, 1001 simultaneously defaces and energizes A Thousand and One Arabian Nights to guide us through a tour of the dizzyingly precarious world of the 21st century.

October 22, 2007 - November 17, 2007 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center