When I first was told about it, I was dubious.  It sounded like a bizarre experiment that would be unwatchable.  I’ve since talked to two of the theater people who’s judgements I most trust.  Between them they have seen five performances of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit and said it was “breathtaking”, “amazing”, “unlike anything they had ever seen”, “every performance is totally different”.

Now I’m as excited as I’ve ever been about a new show.  This should be a wild and wonderful trip

Forbidden to leave his country, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour distilled the experience of an entire generation in a wild, utterly original play. WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT.   Since then it has been translated into 25 languages and performed 1000’s of times all over the globe, each time by a single actor who has never seen the script or show.

The actor arrives on the night of the performance, is handed an envelope on stage.  They open it, remove the script, and the performance begins.

It has been performed by some of the biggest names in theater – John Hurt, Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Stephen Rea, Sinead Cusack, Marcus Brigstocke, Dominic West and film director Ken Loach.

For our performances we’ve lined up three wonderful actors, each of who have some previous connection to Newton Nomadic Theater and each have each gone on to all kinds of other great theater, television, and radio work since.  These three unflappable actors have said yes.  They will jump off this cliff with us and see where they land.

“astonishing originality”

“audacious humor”,

“a multi-faceted query of mortality”

“just honestly the best play I’ve ever experienced”

Fri April 22, 7:30 PM at the Nathaniel Allen House

STEPHEN L. COOPER appeared as Pablo Picasso in A Picasso and Mister Rice in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney, both in 2016, and he was one of the actor-readers for NNT’s Poems on a Sunday Night, presented during the COVID lockdown in April 2020. Stephen has been seen on Boston-area stages since the 1980s and heard on NPR’s Scribbling Women series of plays for radio. He’s a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity.

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Sat April 23, 7:30 PM at the Nathaniel Allen House

Paddy Swanson started his career as an actor in London at the Arts Theatre in the West End.  In the 50 years since, he has directed opera, ensemble, music theater, and circus.  He’s taught at Londons L.A.M.D.A, The London Drama Centre and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  He was Artistic Director of the Castle Hill Festival in Ipswich and is currently Artistic Director at The Revels.  His Actor’s Shakespeare Project’s King Lear was nominated for three Elliot Norton award.   Most recently he was Father Jack in Gloucester Stage’s Dancing at Lughnasa.   We know him as the co-director of NNT’s Waiting for Godot.

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Sun April 24, 7:30 PM at the Waban Community Library

Marge Dunn appeared as the governess in NNT’s first season’s Turn of the Screw. In those days she was a mainstay on Boston stages – Cloud 9 (Central Sq Theater); Murder on the Orient Express (Lyric Stage Company); HAIR, Cardboard Piano (New Repertory Theatre); Jonah and the Whale, Miss Holmes, It’s a Wonderful Life (Greater Boston Stage); Three Sisters, Dancing at Lughnasa, And A Nightingale Sang (Wellesley Repertory Theatre.

Now she lives in NYC is appearing this month on NBC’s The Blacklist.

This month she’s also back in town for Miss Holmes Returns at the Boston Stage Company April 21 – May 8 but will be joining us on Sun April 24 to take the roller coaster ride in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit

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