THIS year's open air promenade production at Williamson Park will be Arabian Nights.
Ashton Memorial will take a leading role in the production as the magnificent backdrop to tales of buried treasure and lost cities, genies and wicked sorcerers, ancient spells and magic rhymes.
Adapted by Les Smith from Arabian Nights, Stories from a Thousand and One Nights it will be directed by Dukes artistic director, Ian Hastings, alongside designer, Terry Brown.
Arabian Nights is full of exotic and mystical tales that have become much loved pantomime and storybook tales and originated in India, Persia and China when travellers told stories to entertain each other on the Chinese silk route.
The first written version of the stories is thought to be A Thousand Legends written in about 850AD which were kept alive by professional story-tellers who would perform in coffee houses.
The Dukes hope to bring these ancient tales to a modern audience where they will once again work their magic and entertain travellers from near and far.
A spokesman for the Dukes said: "The night air in Williamson Park will be warmed by an exotic breeze of mystical stories. A world of myth and fantasy and legend will hold us in its spell."
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