White Rabbit Red Rabbit

Will you participate? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen? With no rehearsals, no director, a different actor each night, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, by Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, is an audacious theatrical experiment and a potent reminder of the transgressive and transformative power of theatre.

Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Soleimanpour wrote a play which travelled the world in his place. The audience joins each different performer on a journey into the unknown; stumbling upon the personal and profound, the limits of liberty and ultimately where theatre can take you. Since its joint premiere in 2011, the play has been translated into over 25 different languages and has been performed over 1000 times by some of the biggest names in theatre and film.

Note: This play is NOT overtly political, and should not be portrayed as such. It operates on a deeper, metaphoric level, and very expressly avoids overt political comment. All media and press agents have to keep in mind that the playwright is an Iranian native. We therefore ask the press to be judicious in their reportage.

Proceeds from ticket sales will support theatre revitalization at TAP.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit

“I was born on Azar 19th, 1360 in Tehran. That’s December 10th, 1981 in Christian years….”

Imagine being 29 and forbidden to leave your country. Nassim Soleimanpour dissects the experience of a whole generation in a wild, utterly original play from Iran.

No rehearsals.
No director.
No set.
With no advance knowledge of its contents, a different actor performs the script each night for the first and only time.

Will you participate?
Will you be manipulated?
Will you listen?

Will you really listen?

Tickets: $20 general admission, $18 students; available online (plus $1.49 transaction fee) and at the door.

Performances on March 7, 8, and 15 are in the (accessible) Bruce B. Johnson Theatre; all others are in Studio 3D, the unique performance space on the third floor.

Each evening’s performer will be announced on the day of the performance, on Twitter using the #MarchHareProject hashtag, and on the show website.

On World Theatre Day, March 27, the performance will be followed by a talkback session.