Set in the 9th century Caliphal court of Baghdad, the great Abbasid Caliph Harun Al-Raschid's son Al-Amin now reigns over the most powerful and prosperous empire in the history of Islam. But the burden of maintaining his father's vast empire weighs heavy upon the reckless Al-Amin.
Written in pentameter, House of Abbas is an ambitious verse play that conjures unapologetically the spectre of true Shakespearean tragedy.
