White Rabbit Red Rabbit will return to the West End with guest performers including David Tennant, Riz Ahmed, Luke Thompson, and Jodie Whittaker.
The show is set to mark the launch of a new indie production company, There & Then, from Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and director Omar Elerian.
White Rabbit Red Rabbit will run at the Duchess Theatre from June to November this year. Performances are set for every Monday night with a new guest star: David Harewood on the opener (June 8), Doctor Who star Tennant the next week, with Bridgerton‘s Thompson on July 6, Whittaker on July 13 and Riz Ahmed, currently starring in Prime Video’s Bait, on Sept. 28. Also set to feature in select shows is Jo Joyner, Asim Chaudhry and Saltburn‘s Archie Madekwe.
The production is structured as a theatrical experiment in which a different actor appears at each performance, and encounters the script for the first time on stage. There is no rehearsal, no director, with each night promising a unique, one-off event shaped entirely by the individual talent on stage.
Soleimanpour said: “We are all made of the stories we dare to tell, and the silences we finally give a voice. What began as a leap into the unknown with White Rabbit Red Rabbit has, through years of collaboration with Omar Elerian, become a shared theatrical language and the foundation of this new company, and we’re excited that our first production will be in association with Nica Burns and Nimax as we share this next chapter with audiences.”
Elerian added that the pair wants to introduce “something fresh and unconventional to the West End.”
“[I am] confident that London audiences will embrace the exhilarating high-wire nature of our work — anchored in presence, immediacy, and a spirit of the unknown. In these fragile and uncertain times, we hope to reaffirm that risk, imagination, and the enduring power of storytelling remain among our most vital and transformative forces.”
White Rabbit Red Rabbit was last performed at @sohoplace in 2024, boasting a star-spangled lineup that included Nick Mohammed, Michael Sheen, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jason Isaacs, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Gadd, Harriet Walter, Stephen Merchant, Stockard Channing, and Minnie Driver.
