SCHEHERAZADE, TELL ME A STORY

Yousry Nasrallah cleverly re-imagines the Arabian Nights for the age of post-modernism, exhaustive politics, and female rights in Scheherazade Tell Me a Story. Utilizing conventions of soap operas Nasrallah fold three stories of female oppression into the meta-story of a highly polemic talk show hostess being bullied by her husband's need to please the government in order to get a high level promotion.