Tallahassee theater group goes live with ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’
Tallahassee theatre corporation The Artist’s Workshop provides up a exceptional and adventurous production beginning Friday, Oct. 1, in the Studio at Theatre Tallahassee.
In the real spirit of a a person-night-only general performance, the production is introduced with a different performer just about every evening who has in no way examine the script or investigated the production.
At the start off of the demonstrate, the performer ways on phase, eliminates the script from a sealed envelope, and with the audience dives headlong into a theatrical journey compared with any other.
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No do-overs, repeats or encores. The Artist’s Workshop has gathered 6 of the bravest and most gifted actors the Tallahassee location has to provide to accept this complicated problem.
Portion social experiment, element avant-garde meta-theatrical expertise, “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” was penned by then 29-12 months-old Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour. A conscientious objector to necessary army support in Iran, Soleimanpour was not able to obtain a passport or depart the nation.
Alternatively, Soleimanpour uses the power of his composed textual content to cross borders and to journey the world vicariously introducing himself to a broad array of numerous international audiences.
Director Jimmy Kontos claims, “We could not be prouder to carry ‘White Rabbit Pink Rabbit’ to the Tallahassee community. Not only is this a amazing way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the play’s premiere, but at a time when journey is constrained for so lots of this is a lovely reminder of innate human link and the transgressive and transformative electricity of theatre.”
Just about every functionality attributes just one guest performer, and The Artist’s Workshop production features some of Tallahassee’s very best – the revolving forged contains: Gwendolyn Homosexual, Laura Johnson, Spencer Lail, Eva Nielsen, Santos Sanchez and Erika Stone.
Formed 20 years in the past by Kontos, The Artist’s Workshop started out as a collective of like-minded artists at Florida Condition 20 a long time ago, and has reemerged as a community concentrated firm in excess of the previous several a long time.
Like a lot of artist’s groups, COVID halted the group’s strategies for development and it is just now resuming functions. “White Rabbit Crimson Rabbit” is the to start with creation in the a few-clearly show time, with smaller workshops, reading through series, and other theatrical engagements in the course of the relaxation of the calendar year.
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What: “White Rabbit Crimson Rabbit”
