One of the most toured plays in the contemporary history of theater.
No rehearsals. No director. No set.
A different actor reads the script cold for the first time at each performance.
“I was born on Azar 19th, 1360 in Tehran. That’s Tehran, December 10th, 1981 in Christian years…”
Forbidden to leave his country, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour distilled the experience of an entire generation in a wild, utterly original play. WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT is as much about contemporary Iran as it is about power dynamics in the rest of the world.
Since its joint premiere in 2011 in Edinburgh and Summerworks festival WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT has been translated into more than 30 different languages and been performed over 3000 times by some of the biggest names in theatre and film including actors John Hurt, Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Stephen Rea, Sinead Cusack, Marcus Brigstocke, Dominic West and film director Ken Loach.
Produced by: Ashley Melzer
Directed by: No One
Featuring:
Friday, January 10th
Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist and the host and creator of Embodied, a nationally-distributed weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health. She is passionate about exploring identity, connection and power through storytelling. Anita grew up in an immigrant, mixed-race family in the Midwest, and this constant straddling of multiple worlds fueled her curiosity. She studied Women's Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and started her career by working or the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department. She then spent almost seven years working for WUNC’s flagship state-wide daily talk show "The State of Things," while also creating and co-hosting a podcast about millennial feminism in the South. When she is not making radio, she loves exploring with her partner and her dog Oliver, cuddling her niece and nephew and quality hangs with friends.