Tales from the Arabian Nights - Set Design

As usual, I have no photgraphs of this set. These are a couple of frame grabs from the only video clips I have of the show, but which should give you an idea what it looked like, I can tell you that it was made out of corrugated cardboard covered in Gold and Red crinkled foil. I had NO Budget at all for this show...everything went toward the Costumes and the fee for the musicians, without either of which there would have been no show anyway, so.....

At least the Shadow Puppets were a huge success. You can see "Alladin's Castle" in place on the Shadow Screen in the top photo. I used basic black posterboard cutouts for this "Scenery" with hand painted clear plastic sheet ( stained glass paint gave a delicate tinted look to mimic the tanned and dyed animal hide that was used in Middle Eastern Puppetry from the period of these tales).

In the lower photo CARMEN KHAN, DENA BRINKLEY & DAVID YEAKLE perform a scene from the  ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES segment of the show.