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:
Thursday, January 9th
Chris Vitiello is the Durham Poet Laureate through 2027, as well as the Poetry Fox. His most recent books are Irresponsibility and Obedience (both Ahsahta Press). As the Poetry Fox, he writes custom poems on-demand on vintage typewriters at around 250 events a year. After winning a 2017 ArtPrize Pitch Night, he took his performance installation The Language Is Asleep to the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and has reprised the immersive work for Duke University’s StoryCon, Raleigh’s Block Gallery, and the Greensboro Project Space. His Writing Cabinet project—crossing the confessional with the fortune telling cabinet—consists of a giant armoire that returns responses to your worries, memories, fears, hopes, and more. He also writes about art and performance, winning the 2017 Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism.