Company: TheaterRED
Position: Writer/Director
Venue: Sunset Playhouse
Production Photos courtesy of James Baker.
Publicity Photos courtesy of Reconstructing Grimm.
Set designed by Chris Dunham.
Lighting designed by Ross Zentner.
Costumes designed and built by Liz Shipe.
Choreography by Samantha Paige.
A Thousand Times Goodnight was the debut production of TheaterRED.
“McDaris’ use of language and quick wit closely conjures the rhythm of Elizabethan comedy, a literary feat worth hearing alone… acted with complete confidence by an accomplished, brave cast.” – Postscript: Performing Arts
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- The Cast of A Thousand Times Night
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- Scheherazade
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- The Sultan (Shahryar)
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- The Clown (Faris)
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- Dinyzade
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- Shah Zaman
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- Cast of Aladdin & The Lamp (2.2 & 3.2)
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- Genie (Homuncula) & Aladdin
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- The Ifrit
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- Aladdin’s Mother
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- Cast of Ali Baba and the King of Thieves (4.2)
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- The Serving Girl (Morgiana)
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- The King of Thieves
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- The Set
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- James Carrington as the Sultan
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- Amanda Carson as Scheherazade
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- Dancers Samantha Paige and Audwin Short
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- The Sultan’s Court observe the Tale of the Beast Prince
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- “Night is young yet fearsome, Sovereign lord, and bids thee, braves thee take advantage.”
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- “I am the Lord of Persia!”
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- Dinyzade (Natasha Kaye) begs for a bedtime story.
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- Aladdin’s Mother (Margaret Casey), Aladdin (Sally Staats), and the Sorcerer (Matthew Roth)
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- The trio repose in the canopy.
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- Aladdin is arrested by the statues. Left-to-Right: Rachel Nies, Joe Picchetti, Sally Staats, Audwin Short, & Samantha Paige.
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- “Alas, though, they will not let me go.”
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- The Genie (Hayley SanFillippo) calms the raging statues
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- Hayley SanFillippo as Homuncula (the Genie)
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- Joe Picchetti as Arar (the Third Lord)
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- The Sultan asserts his power.
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- Brittany Bonnell as the Clown
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- The Clown is beaten out of doors.
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- Aladdin is resumed.
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- Tawnie Thompson as the Mighty Ifrit.
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- Scheherazade completes Aladdin and begins Ali Baba.
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- The Clown raises a muttley crew.
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- Toilet humor.
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- “If woman names the Sun, shall it be lunar?”
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- The Treasure Vault of the Forty Thieves.
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- A Thousand Times Goodnight, 2013
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- Morgiana (Liz Shipe) dances the Dagger Dance.
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- Scheherazade concludes the Tale.
