June comments “Since our first performance of 1001 nights 15 years ago, I have been enchanted by the story of Sheharazad telling tales to save her life. I return again and again to her huge repertoire of stories.  Many of the stories have a depth and a quality that makes them stand alone, some need to be heard in the context of the frame story in order to get a sense of the full range and subtlety of meaning. All are wonderfully flexible and malleable so we can constantly create new tellings and new meanings with these old stories. But whatever tales find ourselves telling in any new performance of 1001 nights, its essential message is of the capacity of the human heart to be touched and changed by the stories of others.”