Author(s): Dr. Dimple D. Mapri

Abstract: The critically acclaimed and very famous play by the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’ is different for many reasons. The writer took around six years to pen down a 46 pages’ compact yet effective script. When the instructions are read then only the uniqueness of this script is felt. The play denies many traditional structure of the genre. “Life is the most common way to commit suicide. Life means choosing the longest solution for dying. It means a struggle for suicide through the natural decomposition of the body and the gradual exhaustion of the soul” these very poetic and philosophical lines allow an insight into the writer’s mind and situation. Through writing, the writer to expresses him / her and their words echo their ecosystem and the contemporary world. Nowadays writing is looked as therapeutic as well. Nassim in the following lines express exactly that. “I’ve always had this dream of writing something which makes me free. I’m 29 as I write this, full of hopes and energy. But I am not free. Not enough to travel.”

Keywords: Drama, Genre, Solo performer, loud reading of the script, Nassim Soleimanpour.

DOI:10.61165/sk.publisher.script.writing.2024.29

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Is Only Script Enough? An analysis of Nassim Soleimanpour’s ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’

Pages:140-142