This beautiful piece by Mary Zimmerman, true to the source, is a series of stories within stories, woven together wonderfully like a magic carpet.  Each story in the play is told as a means to save oneself from danger.  Written in the midst of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" it ends with a modern air raid signal.  To make this abrupt incursion at the play's end more integrated for 2014 audiences - less focused on matters in Iraq (or even the ongoing war in Afghanistan) - I chose to make the opening chorus lines spoken by a Middle Eastern POW, under interrogation.

"This show did all of the things theatre is supposed to do." ~ Miranda Hawk, Madison College

Photographs courtesy of Don Lintner

Scenic/Lighting Design - Jody Sekas, Costume Design - Misti Bradford, Hair & Makeup - Tayler Varney, Properties Master - Kara Foster, Dance Choreography - Jennifer Sassaman, Original Composition - Curtis Crump