Christopher Aruffo (The Vizier)
A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT opens July 30!
4001 N Ravenswood Ave, 4th Floor (Right Brain Project Theatre space)
ALL TICKETS ARE FREE
CHRISTOPHER ARUFFO play the Vizier.
Dr. Christopher Aruffo (teacher, actor, director) has performed in and directed more than 60 plays in the US, the UK, and Canada. Currently based in Chicago, Chris has taught acting classes and workshops for more than 13 years, and is the author of A Rational Guide to Verse: Scansion Made Simple, a guide to Shakespearean language. He is a dialect coach and voiceover artist, and has recorded thirteen volumes of the Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Acting Performance from the University of Florida and his Ph.D. from McMaster University. Chris’s TEDx talk, explaining why people talk with an accent, can be seen on YouTube.
THE VIZIER, Scheherazade’s father, has been trying literally for years to convince the Sultan to abandon his ridiculous campaign against womankind and return to governance. At the same time, he has been keeping his daughters out of his sovereign’s rapacious eye: but one fateful evening, Scheherazade emerges and seems hellbent on arousing the Sultan’s ire. The Vizier is stuck with the unenviable task of reigning in his daughter’s suicidal obstreperousness.
“For ev’ry Subject
You offer up a Theme: When I would speak
To you of debtors unrepentant, you
Repine the fortunes wasted on a Wife
Who durst to dote upon her Jew’lry more
Than on th’ Jewel of her Master’s Potency,
As though she ought to hang upon the Scepter
Alike to Moses’ staff. A Sultan’s staff
Is sturdy true and ready for his Office,
Yet ‘tis not Evidence of God, whate’er
We fane would have our Ladies testify.
Thus speak you of Taxes, learned Sultan.”
Act I, Scene 1
A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT
July 30 & 31, August 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15
7:30pm
ALL TICKETS ARE FREE
Space is limited. To reserve a spot, email Jared (jared@unrehearsedchicago.com, jared.mcdaris@gmail.com, or unrehearsedchicago@gmail.com).