White Rabbit, Red Rabbit – A Theatrical Performance
Co-Production with the MJCCA and Out of Hand Theater Featuring John Lemley, Host and Producer, WABE/90.1 FM
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) and Out of Hand Theater are pleased to co-present White Rabbit, Red Rabbit – A
Theatrical Performance, by Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour. 24 different readings of this play will be produced over a 3 month span, each with a different actor cold reading the script in
front of an audience for the first time. Actors are announced a few days in advance of each performance. For the MJCCA’s performance on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014 at 8:00 pm, Atlanta’s
John Lemley, Host and Producer, WABE/90.1 FM will read on stage in the MJCCA’s Morris & Rae Frank Theatre (5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody). Ticket Prices: $20.
To purchase tickets, CLICK HERE.
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
Imagine being 29 and forbidden to leave your country. Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour dissects the experience of a whole generation in a wild, utterly original play from Iran. Forbidden to travel, he turns his isolation to his own advantage with a play that requires no director, no set, and a different actor for every performance.
Adam Fristoe, Co-Artistic Director, Out of Hand Theater explains, “We will partner with local theaters for 12 of the performances and have another 12 performances in private homes.” Fristoe continues, “Each performance is a world premiere. No rehearsals. No director. No set. A different actor reads the script cold for the first time at each performance. A thrilling, informative, highly individual and extremely entertaining encounter emerges, almost like magic, with a young writer who has more questions for his (fictional) audience than answers.”
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit has been celebrated worldwide as one of the most astonishing evenings in a theater where both audience and performer as a whole create a performance about the ties and tensions between freedom and conformity. The play has been performed around the world, including in Edinburgh, Cairo, Melbourne, Toronto, London, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, Boston and Chicago.
Brian Kimmel, Director of Arts & Culture, MJCCA said, “We are pleased to partner with Out of Hand Theater Company, and look forward to producing White Rabbit, Red Rabbit on our stage, featuring John Lemley.” Kimmel continues, “We invite the entire community to come and enjoy this unique theatrical experience.”
“There is a magnetic mind behind the prose. ‘Rabbit’ is a lightly comic, deceptively discursive, meta-theatrical monologue that – without, I hope, giving too much away – raises provocative questions about the nature of theater, social responsibility, personal freedoms, suicide, and the limits of obedience.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Media Restraint
URGENT: All media and press agents have to keep in mind that the playwright lives in Iran. 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. We therefore ask the press to be judicious in their reportage.
Purchase Tickets
Ticket Prices: $20 / To purchase tickets, CLICK HERE.
Media Inquiries
MJCCA – Lora Sommer, 678.812.4078, lora.sommer@atlantajcc.org
Out of Hand Theater – Adam Fristoe, 404-452-5970, adam@outofhandtheater.com