The full repertoire of human fantasy is unraveled little by little through the masterful voice and expressiveness of professional oral storyteller Héctor Urién, who weaves the stories together with his presence and gestures. With a different tale told each night, as Scheherazade did, he leaves us in suspense until the next night arrives.

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Héctor Urién (Madrid, 1977), a professional oral storyteller, has staged this innovative, original show based on the structure used to build Scheherazade’s tale. As a professional storyteller, he performs his art and stage work at theaters in Spain and Latin America. Driven by his curiosity and and a deeply ingrained scientific streak, Urién has developed his own ongoing storytelling workshop in Madrid, where students and teacher discover the inner workings of stories and the mystery of the oral narrative together. A narrator of short, direct tales, he has taken part in several domestic and foreign festivals, as well as co-directing the annual festival “Ávila de cuento” (“Storybook Avila”). In 2015, he had an essay published by the “Palabras del candil” publishing firm: La narración fractal. arte y ciencia de la oralidad (Fractal storytelling: the art and science of oral tradition), in which he presents an innovative, surprising perspective on storytelling, backed by chaos theory and fractal geometry.