“1001 Nights Now: Diaspora Narratives on the English Stage”

The article focuses on "1001 Nights Now", a play staged in Britain in 2005, dramatizing the experience of Muslim refugees and asylum seekers, in the aftermath of 9/11. The article argues that by foregrounding the narrative element as a strategy for survival and by bringing together echoes and features of diverse cultures, the play recreates a disporic/translational space on the stage and contributes to the conceptualization of intercultural theatre as posited "at the crossroads of cultures", according to P. Pavis (1992).