1001 spins themes and variations from the classic A Thousand and One Arabian Nights to explore the incarnations of love, sex, religion, cruelty and war from ancient Baghdad to the post-9/11 era. Playwright Jason Grote combines savage wit, political insight, Borgesian time-warping, and theatrical ingenuity in a dazzling tour de force that Sheherezade herself would envy. 1001 was selected from the new plays read at the Denver Center Theatre Company's inaugural Colorado New Play Summit.