Scheherazade

Featuring the GenEnCo Company Members

Presented June 2-17, 2017
The VORTEX Theater
Austin, TX

Director: kt shorb
Script by the Ensemble, edited by Annie Kim Hedrick and Leena Waarsi
Scenic Design: Ann Marie Gordon
Costume Design: E.L. Hohn
Lighting Design: Rachel Atkinson
Stage Manager: Zoë Crabtree
Assistant Stage Manager: Jana Zek


Photo credit: Errich Petersen

SCHEHERAZADE centers collaborators of Middle Eastern descent, using the Arabian Night stories as a basis for exploring Islamophobia, terrorism, detention, and the “Muslim Ban.” In an international airport in “The States,” Scheherazade must tell stories to save her life. Interweaving queer love stories in the context of xenophobia, diaspora and fundamentalism, SCHEHERAZADE asks: what are the stories that take us home?