The Mad, Mad Love of Layla and Majnun

THE MAD, MAD LOVE OF LAYLA AND MAJNUN

APRIL 9, 2021 | 7:30 P.M.

The USAO Theatre Arts Program will present The Mad, Mad Love of Layla and Majnun, a live, online theatre event based on the 5^th century Arabic story about these lovers and devised from the 11^th century epic poem Layla and Majnun by Nizami Ganjawi. 

Featuring original music by Frederick Johnson and Daniel Kelly and with credit to contemporary translations by James Atkinson, Dick Davis, Rudolph Gelpke and Paul Smith.

Created with inspiration from:

• Amir Khusraw Dehlawi’s masterpiece Majnun and Laili (completed c. 1299)
• ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami’s Laili and Majnun (composed c. 1485)
• Kitab Layla U Majnun by Maktabi Shirazi (1838)

and interpretations of the story including:

Gara Garayev, Layla and Majnun Opera Libretto by Uzeyir Hajibeyli
(based on the poem Leyli and Majnun by Muhammad Fuzuli)
Translation by Aida Huseynova and Isabelle Hunter,
as performed by The Mark Morris Dance Company

and

The lives and loves of our cast and crew.

~ Who are we, so far, and yet, so near? ~

DONATIONS

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Please call (405) 574-1310 or email kdavis@usao.edu with questions.