White Rabbit, Red Rabbit - Trevor Lundy

Wednesday April 1 at 7:30 pm
Tickets $25 Regular | $19 Big Ticket | $15 Big Ticket PLUS
Recommended Ages 16+

No rehearsals. No director. No set.
A different local actor reads the script cold for the first time at each performance.
A theatre experience unlike any other.
Will you participate? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen?

With no rehearsals, no director, a different actor each night, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, by Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, is an audacious theatrical experiment and a potent reminder of the transgressive and transformative power of theatre.

ACTOR: Trevor Lundy
Trevor has been involved in theatre for over 40 years as an actor, director, producer, set designer, playwright, administrator...but never in a situation like this. To be seeing the script for the first time as it is being presented is a very unique experience and, while nervous of the unknown, the anticipation to leap into something like this and push the boundaries of what theatre can be is very exciting to him. As a rabbit owner himself (Shoutout to Ferb!) the title intrigues him and he is very curious to find out what it is referring to.

Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Soleimanpour wrote a play which travelled the world in his place. The audience joins each different performer on a journey into the unknown; stumbling upon the personal and profound, the limits of liberty and ultimately where theatre can take you. Since its joint premiere in 2011, the play has been translated into over 25 different languages and has been performed over 1000 times by some of the biggest names in theatre and film, including actors Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, John Hurt, Simon McBurney, Stephen Fry, Sinead Cusack, Marcus Brigstocke and Ken Loach.

Note: This play is NOT overtly political. It operates on a deeper, metaphoric level, and very expressly avoids overt political comment.