Mettlesome in association with Aurora Nova Productions and Boat Rocker Entertainment presents
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
By Nassim Soleimanpour
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:
Saturday, January 18th
Kathryn Hunter Williams is Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Kathryn lived and worked in NYC for 20 years. Kathryn’s first company show at PRC was Constant Star fall of 1999. She earned her MFA from UNC in 2008 and joined the faculty.
A longstanding member of PlayMakers Repertory Company, she recently originated the role of Rhonda in The Game. Other roles include Rabby in Fat Ham, Gertrude in Hamlet, Mrs. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth, Mrs. Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time, Jacques in As You Like It, Portia in Julius Caesar, Everybody, Skelton Crew, Galileo, Intimate Apparel, Trouble in Mind, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Love Alone, A Raisin in the Sun, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Angels in America, Doubt, and Yellowman. She has also worked with Living Stage, The Negro Ensemble Company, and New Dramatists and Virgina Stage.
Directing credits include They Do Not Know Harlem, Stickfly, Nina Simone: No Fear Blues Long Gone and Count, for PlayMakers. Regional directing credits are The Mountaintop, The Niceties at Virginia Theater Festival.
For the past 20 years she has also served as Associate Director for Hidden Voices, a nonprofit based in Hillsborough NC. As Associate Director of Hidden Voices, Kathryn has co-created performances with undocumented immigrant youth, families escaping violence, military spouses, survivors of sexual assault, African American communities facing gentrification, refugees, and incarcerated men on death row.