Unloved Stories
Theater Review
Grote's 1001 combines the traditional story of Scheherazade (played here by Toni Martin) with a modern story of a Palestinian graduate student named Dahna (also played by Martin) who falls in love with a Jewish man named Alan (played by David Rothrock, who also plays Shahryar). The mirror format amplifies Grote's theme that all stories are ultimately connected.
The dialog plays along quite cleverly by allowing Shahryar and Scheherazade to speak in the 20th-century vernacular that would be familiar to Dahna and Alan. The two mirrored stories fit together quite well in the midst of the stories being told over the course of the play, but while there seems to be a genuine love of storytelling here, there doesn't seem to be a particular love for any of the stories being told. As a result, the play as a whole fades into nebulous details in spite of its well-executed staging.
UWM's next show is a studio production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, which runs the weekend of Oct. 29 at UWM's Kenilworth Square East.
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