San Francisco International Arts Festival

Friday, June 3rd, 7:00 PM

Rob Melrose

In a benefit for California Lawyers for the Arts

Chapel
Tickets: General Admission
$15 advance, $20 at door
Duration: 60 minutes, no intermission

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ROB MELROSE is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco. He has directed at The Public Theater (Pericles), The Guthrie Theater (Happy Days, Pen, Freud’s Last Session, Julius Caesar); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Troilus and Cressida), The Old Globe Theater (Much Ado About Nothing); Magic Theatre (An Accident, World Premiere); PlayMakers Rep (Happy Days); among others. Selected directing credits at Cutting Ball: Ondine (World Premiere), The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, As You Like It, Hamletmachine; Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep, Pelleas & Melisande, The Bald Soprano, Victims of Duty, Endgame, and Krapp’s Last Tape. www.robmelrose.com

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour declined to serve in his country’s armed forces, in return the Iranian government denied Mr. Soleimanpour’s request for a passport. Unable to leave Iran, he has instead sent a script to SFIAF to have other people read it for him. Soleimanpour’s arresting and allegorical work, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, dissects the experience of a whole generation in a wild, utterly original play. Soleimanpour turns his isolation to his own advantage with the play (written in English) which requires no director, no set, and a different actor for every performance. Per Mr. Soleimanpour’s instruction, the script of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit will be opened in front of the audience and performed unrehearsed by a different actor each night.

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