Last year’s hit production by experimential playwright Nassim Soleimanpour
Imagine being 29 years old and unable to leave your country. Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour is a conscientious objector who refused to take part in military service, mandatory for all Iranian men. Soleimanpour turned his isolation to his advantage with a wild, utterly original play, an absurdist adventure that blends comedy and drama. In White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, he distills the experience of an entire generation born amid the hardship of the Iran-Iraq war—computer-literate, well-informed young people who have never known an Iran other than the Islamic Republic.
With no director, no set, and a different guest performer each night, this play is performed by distinct local actors reading a script they see for the first time as they step onstage in front of a live audience. Using a menagerie of allegorical animals, the play is “not about Iran,” but grapples with the social phenomena of power, obedience, and manipulation.
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12 Peers Theater begins their eighth main stage season with Blank, featuring the return of White Rabbit Red Rabbit playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and his latest 'story machine.' Blank features a script full of blanks, to be filled by the audience in attendance and a new performer at every performance, ensuring no two performances are the same.
12 Peers Theater announces their eighth season featuring the return of Mythburgh, a site-specific performance and storytelling series, and two local premieres, Blank and Everybody. Blank is a performance piece by Nassim Soleimanpour, the mastermind behind 2016's White Rabbit Red Rabbit. Everybody is a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that remixes the classic Everyman for a modern audience. The play features a rotating cast of performers, ensuring no two performances are the same.
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The Youngstown Playhouse (7/12 - 7/12) | ||
Angels In America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
ELSEWHERE Theatre Company (6/7 - 6/15) | ||
The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show
The Dinner Detective Pittsburgh (6/8 - 6/22) | ||
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (5/17 - 6/30) | ||
Julius Caesar
Youth Shakespeare Society of Pittsburgh (8/2 - 8/4) | ||
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
Greer Cabaret Theater (7/19 - 9/1) | ||
Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (7/9 - 7/14) | ||
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