New City Players -White Rabbit Red Rabbit

This event contains adult language or content. The play that no one knows-not even the actors. At each performance, a different actor steps onto the stage and opens a sealed envelope containing a script they've never seen before. No rehearsal. No director. Every night is opening night. Written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour when he was forbidden to leave his country, White Rabbit Red Rabbit became a "message in a bottle"-a way to use theatre to communicate the experience of living under censorship, restriction, and authoritarian control. Wild, unpredictable, and utterly original, this 70-minute experience explores themes of freedom, obedience, complicity, and what it means to be truly present. It's been performed over 3,000 times worldwide from the West End to Off-Broadway by actors including Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, David Tennant, Martin Short, Alan Cumming, Darren Criss, Michael Sheen, and Cynthia Nixon-but never twice by the same person. An Amplify Arts initiative.