White Rabbit, Red Rabbit

Première 2011
Running time is between 1 hour and 1 hour 30 minutes. No interval. 
+ post-performance talk after each  repetition
Performance is in Slovenian with English surtitles.
13+

Dramaturgs Daniel Brooks, Ross Manson
Original production Volcano Theatre, Necessary Angel, Wolfgang Hoffmann

•  15. 10. Anže Zevnik

• 16. 10. Klemen Kovačič UL AGRFT

• 17. 10. Gal Oblak UL AGRFT

• 18. 10. Tina Resman UL AGRFT

• 19. 10. Nik Škrlec

Additional performance at UL AGRFT, Nazorjeva 3, Ljubljana

• 29. 10. Domen Novak UL AGRFT

With neither rehearsals nor director, Soleimanpour’s text awaits a different actor each time in a sealed envelope – an actor who hasn’t seen the text or the performance before. A daring theatre experiment convincingly realises the transgressive and transformative power of theatre, and thus, in an absurd-grotesque way, reveals the personal experience of the Middle Eastern situation. We can easily imagine that it’s "bad" over there, we can follow it in the media. Most of us will never experience this kind of violence. But it happens. For now, to others. 

The artist

Nassim Soleimanpour is a multidisciplinary theatre artist from Tehran. White Rabbit, Red Rabbitis his best known and most awarded work. It got its present form when Soleimanpour could not get a permit to leave Iran to attend an international festival in 2013. The text has been translated into more than 25 languages, it has been performed over 1000 times by different actors, among them John Hurt, Whoopie Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Stephen Rea, Sinead Cusack, Marcus Brigstocke, Dominic West and others.

Awards

• 2012 Dublin Fringe Festival, best new production 
• 2011 Summerworks Festival, best new text
• 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Arches Brick Award 

Workshop

The performance is accompanied by the workshop Theatre Communication, about the ways to formulate and confidently read stage relationships.

• 15 October / 11. 00 / Small Stage / for the young
• 15 October / 17.00 / Chamber Stage / for proffesionals