LANGUAGE: Italian
DURATION: 90 minutes
TICKETS: €13 full price, €10 reduced price
WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT is a social experiment in the form of a show. The actress or actor plays it for one time only, without direction and without rehearsals, he or she goes on stage, opens the sealed envelope containing the text and shares its content with the audience.
Marco Paolini accepted the challenge for Pergine festival.
A chair, a table, two glasses, some objects and a text that he cannot see before are waiting for him. He must arrive on stage bringing courage and lightness, resourcefulness, irony and intelligence.
WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT is a theatrical text written by the Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour in 2010, at the age of 29, when he had no possibility of communicating with the world outside of his country. It is not a political text: its content is metaphorical and distant from any political orientation.
IN A NUTSHELL
WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT is a theatrical experiment without rehearsals or direction. Marco Paolini will read the text for the first time directly on stage. A game on the here and now, between surprise, courage and immediacy. Written by the Iranian author Nassim Soleimanpour, it is an invitation to explore the limits of communication and freedom.
Text Nassim Soleimanpour
With Marco Paolini
Italian production 369gradi
Marco Paolini is an actor, author and director, one of the major protagonists of Italian narrative theatre. After scientific studies, he began his career in the 1970’s, founding the Moby Dick company in 1990. His style combines Venetian dialect, irony and civil commitment. With Il racconto del Vajont (1993) he achieved great success and the Ubu Prize. In 1999 he founded JoleFilm to produce his own theatrical and cinematographic projects. Among his best-known works: Ausmerzen, ITIS Galileo and Miserabili. He has also acted in films by Nanni Moretti and Checco Zalone. In 2024 he received an honorary degree in Philosophy from the University of Pisa.
Nassim Soleimanpour is an Iranian author, known for White Rabbit Red Rabbit, translated into over 20 languages and performed thousands of times around the world. Forced to not travel for years, his text toured the theaters before him. Since then he has participated in international festivals and written other works such as Blind Hamlet, Blank, Nassim and Echo, presented in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He lives in Berlin with his wife Shirin.
