White Rabbit Red Rabbit
THEATRE | LIVE EVENT
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Written by Nassim Soleimanpour
Produced by Aurora Nova,
Two Nights Two Actors
8:00pm | Thurs 8th July
8:00pm | Fri 9th July
Photo credit Hilde Vanstraelen
Event Details
Time & Date:
8:00pm | Thurs 8th July
8:00pm | Fri 9th July
Duration:
60 to 70 minutes
Event Categories:
Admission:
Live Event: €15
Venue:
The Factory Performance space
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With no rehearsals, no director, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, by Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, is an audacious theatrical experiment and a potent reminder of the transgressive and transformative power of theatre. Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Soleimanpour wrote a play which travelled the world in his place.
The audience joins each different performer on a journey into the unknown; stumbling upon the personal and profound, the limits of liberty and ultimately where theatre can take you. Since its joint premiere in 2011, the play has been translated into over 25 different languages and has been performed over 1000 times around the globe.
Join us for a night of live - really live - theatre with Heather O’Byrne on Thursday night and John Carty on Friday night.
Heather O’Byrne
Heather, an American actress, moved to beautiful Sligo from Los Angeles 4 years ago with her Irish husband, actor Brían F O’Byrne, and 2 little girls for a simpler, calmer way of life, closer to nature. (And to Bríans parents in Cavan and sister in Galway:). Heather met her Irishman in New York City in 2005 when they starred in the acclaimed Broadway play “Doubt,” he playing a priest and she a nun. Both were nominated for Tony awards. It was her Broadway debut and first Nomination. She trained at Juilliard in NYC and went on to work in many Off-Broadway plays, feature films, and Television shows. In Film, Heather mostly worked in period films such as an adaptation of Dickens “Nicholas Nickleby”, Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice.” Her favorite all time job was the Coen Brothers film “Hail, Caesar!” In TV, she did a Sitcom called “The Class” and the recent 2nd season of “The Alienist.” Her favorite role, however, is just playing herself, as partner to Brían and mother to Molly and Oona.
Photo by Eddie Lee
John Carty
John Carty is a Co – founder and member of the acting ensemble of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company. He was involved in theatre in Sligo from a young age before beginning professional actor training in 1986 at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. Dublin. He has subsequently spent time training at the International School of Corporeal Mime, London, The Saratoga International Theatre Institute, New York and since 2004 has worked and trained with David Goldsworthy of The Roy Hart International Voice Centre, Malerargues, France. He has acted in most Blue Raincoat Theatre productions to date while also directing a number of plays for the company including works by Samuel Beckett and W.B Yeats. For a number of years, John has directed the Graduation Show of the ITSligo Performing Arts (Acting) degree, including this May when students performed an adaptation of The Trojan Women by Euripides.