Arabian Nights review " warming festive treat with bags of scrappy charm
Bristol Old VicPart panto, part Arabian version of EastEnders, writer Sonali Bhattacharyya, and a winning cast have cobbled together a fizzing modern-day fable about the power of storytelling Here is a charmingly hybrid festive show, part modern retelling of One Thousand and One Nights, part alternative pantomime. There is a narcissistic tyrant-king (Nicholas Karimi) who is depleting the kingdom of its natural resour…