13 January 2016, 8pm – Munah Bagharib (Performed in English)
14 January 2016, 8pm – Neo Swee Lin (Performed in English)
15 January 2016, 8pm – Udaya Soundari உதய சௌந்தரி (Performed in Tamil / தமிழ் பாடினார்)
16 January 2016, 3pm – Sani Hussin (Performed in Malay / Persembahan dalam Bahasa Melayu)
16 January 2016, 8pm – Zhou Chongqing周崇庆 (Dennis Chew) (Performed in Mandarin / 华语演出)
Gallery Theatre, Basement, National Museum of Singapore
60 minutes with no intermission
All performances in this series will not have accompanying surtitles.
Rating
(Some Mature Content and Coarse Language)
Price
$22 | $19*
*concession for students, NSF & senior citizens
Biography of Artist
"Wildly unpredictable and completely unforgettable, White Rabbit Red Rabbit is a punch in the air for self-expression; a testament to the power of words to transcend cultures and borders. You have to be there."
- New Zealand Herald
"But so much of the excitement of seeing live theatre lies in the unexpected … Rabbit takes this to the extreme, setting the stage for an actor to confront an audience at his most vulnerable."
- Corrie Tan, The Straits Times Life!
Back By Popular Demand!
Imagine being 29 and unable to leave your country.
Nassim Soleimanpour dissects the experience of a whole generation in a wild, utterly original play from Iran. Disallowed a passport due to his refusal to do military service, he turns his isolation to his own advantage with a play that requires no director, no set and a different actor for every performance.
Five performers have bravely agreed to tackle this refreshing interactive play that explores the concept of personal freedom, limits, conformity and choices via an allegorical menagerie of animals. The performers are strictly not allowed to do any research and will only see the script for the first time upon stepping on stage.
Veteran stage and television actors Neo Swee Lin and Sani Hussin, Youtube star and actress Munah Bagharib, Vasantham actress, singer and host Udaya Soundari and MediaCorp Love 97.2FM DJ and TV celebrity Zhou Chongqing (Dennis Chew) will take you down the rabbit hole in this daring theatrical experiment.
Presented in association with Aurora Nova.
Nassim Soleimanpour is an independent multidisciplinary theatre-maker from Tehran, Iran. His plays have been translated into more than 20 languages and he is best known for his play White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written to travel the world when he couldn't.
Sean says:
"I believe this to be one of the most important plays of our times, and that is why we are bringing it back again. It sold out really fast during its run in Fringe '15 and will be sure to sell quickly again with the amazing line-up of performers we have gathered for you. Nassim Soleimanpour's play is bold, clever, confronting and arresting. This is theatre that makes you keep thinking and talking about it long after it is over."
Relationship to Art and the Animal
Animals have long been the subject of art and also of scientific experiments. In this ground-breaking play, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour turns the theatrical experience into a social experiment. Both the actor and audience sense his powerful manipulative presence and are made to feel like rabbits in the lab.
