Safiyah Zanabi

Adam Isla O'Brien

Mimi Pattinson

Theatre503

Tom and Leila have been together for 1001 nights. Sleepless and restless in the early morning, they count down the hours until sunrise when they will leave for the funeral of their mutual friend.

Leila and Tom begin to tell each other stories to try to get back to sleep. The bedtime stories they make up, that begin with fairy-tales and dreams, soon betray hidden truths about Tom and Leila and about their relationship. The stories they tell become stories about themselves, about their pasts, and about their imagined futures.
As night-time draws to close and as the funeral creeps closer, Tom and Leila are forced to find ‘endings’ for the stories they have begun telling, and to confront what ‘endings’ really mean.