Cast of One-Off Actors Announced for Bush Theatre's NASSIM at Traverse

The Bush Theatre is thrilled to share its production of NASSIM written by Nassim Soleimanpour (WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT) and directed by Bush Theatre Associate Director Omar Elerian (One Cold Dark Night, Islands) at the Traverse Theatre for a full run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.

Dear performer. I want to show you something. Did you know, in Farsi my name is written like this: '.ROUPNAMIELOS MISSAN si eman yM'

No rehearsals. No preparation. Just a sealed envelope and an actor reading a script for the first time.

For each performance across the run, a different cultural figure will join Nassim on stage to perform his new work. Performers over the first 10 performances are Desiree Burch, Phil Burgers (Dr Brown), Monica Dolan, Chris Goode, David Grieg, Zinnie Harris, Charlotte Josephine, Anna Morris, Mark Thomas and Chris Thorpe.

Later in the run Phill Jupitus, Inua Ellams,Seiriol Davies, Chris Thorpe, Josie Long, Richard Gadd, Nir Paldi, Rachel Mars, BrIan Ferguson, George Mann and UrsulA Martinez are among the well known faces to sign up.

The actor taking part will be revealed the day before their performance on Twitter- search #NassimThePlay to be the first to find out who's performing next.

Nassim Soleimanpour's audacious theatrical experiment explores the power of language to unite us in unknown, uncertain times.NASSIM is the Iranian playwright's second play to receive its UK Premiere at the Bush Theatre. The first, BLANK, was produced as part of the Bush Theatre's annual new writing festival, RADAR, in 2015. This will be the Bush Theatre's first production to transfer to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since Simon Stephens' Sea Wall in 2009.

NASSIM follows Soleimanpour's globally acclaimEd White RABBIT RED RABBIT, which has beentranslated into 15 different languages and performed over 1000 times by some of the biggest names in theatre and film including Sinead Cusack, Ken Loach and Whoopi Goldberg. It had already been performed hundreds of times in more than a dozen languages by 2013 when Soleimanpour was first permitted to travel outside his native Tehran.

NASSIM - a Bush Theatre commission - is written by Nassim Soleimanpour, directed by Omar Elerian and designed by Rhys Jarman. Lighting design is by Rajiv Pattani with sound design by James Swadlo.

Learn more at https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/festival/nassim-plays/.

Photo credit: Helen Murray

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