to perform a play with no preparation no idea even what the play is about and yet the play white rabbit red rabbit has been performed thousands of times in dozens of languages talk to the playwright coming up and. the cool tale of the drug war a little known opera that could snag a grammy this weekend those stories coming up but 1st a possible game changer for the art market just half a year ago the artist beatle had never sold a work but on thursday christie's auction off a digital collage by the artist for over $69000000.00 the 3rd highest auction price ever for a living artist it's also the highest price ever for a purely digital artwork the piece containing images the artists have been posting online daily since 2007 sold as an n f t a non fungible toking a form of encrypted data that can't be replicated the artist whose real name is mike winkleman says it's a new day for digital art there are thousands of artists and that is something that you know i sort of really hope comes from this and i'm going to be pushing or is sort of going back actually and looking at the history of digital art over

to perform a play with no preparation no idea even what the play is about and yet the play white rabbit red rabbit has been performed thousands of times in dozens of languages talk to the playwright coming up. cruel tale of. a little known opera that could snag a grammy this weekend those stories coming up but 1st a possible game changer for the art market just half a year ago the artist beatle had never sold a work but on thursday christie's auction off a digital collage by the artist for over $69000000.00 the 3rd highest auction price ever for a living artist it's also the highest price ever for a purely digital artwork the piece containing images the artist had been posting online daily since 2007 sold as an n f t a non fungible token a form of encrypted data that can't be replicated the artist whose real name is mike winkleman says it's a new day for digital art. but there are thousands of artists and that is something that you know i start out really the whole concert from this and i'm going to be pushing or is sort of going back actually and looking at the history of digital art over the las

to perform a play with no preparation no idea even with the plays about and yet the play white rabbit red rabbit has been performed thousands of times in dozens of languages talk to the playwright coming up after. the cool tale of the drug war a little known opera that could snag a grammy this weekend those stories coming up but 1st a possible game changer for the art market just half a year ago the artist beatle had never sold a work but on thursday christie's auction off a digital collage by the artist for over $69000000.00 the 3rd highest auction price ever for a living artist it's also the highest price ever for a purely digital artwork the piece containing images the artist had been posting online daily since 2007 sold as an n f t a non fungible token a form of encrypted data that can't be replicated the artist whose real name is mike winkleman says it's a new day for digital art. there are thousands of artists and that is something that you know i sort of really hope comes from that and i'm going to be pushing or is sort of going back actually and looking at the history of digital art over

to perform a play with no preparation no idea even with the plays about and yet the play white rabbit red rabbit has been performed thousands of times in dozens of languages talk to the playwright coming up. the cool tale of. a little known opera that could snag a grammy this weekend those stories coming up but 1st a possible game changer for the art market just half a year ago the artist beatle had never sold a work but on thursday christie's auction off a digital collage by the artist for over $69000000.00 the 3rd highest auction price ever for a living artist it's also the highest price ever for a purely digital artwork the piece containing images the artists have been posting online daily since 2007 sold as an n f t a non fungible token a form of encrypted data that can't be replicated the artist whose real name is mike winkleman says it's a new day for digital arts. there are thousands of artists and that is something that you know i sort of really hope concert from that and i'm going to be pushing or is sort of going back actually and looking at the history of digital art over the last 20

play and none of them knows what it's about with no or her souls and no director the work white rabbit red rabbit by iranian playwright nasim so in one poor is perhaps the perfect choice for a day of action calling attention to the plight of theaters one year and the coronavirus pandemic this unusual play always begins the same way ok. i have just been the envelope i've begun to read and i have no idea what's going to happen. there are no were her souls no real script and no director the actors get their instructions once they're on stage where they slip into the role of a 29 year old theater director from iran there is a bit of a plot but that's a secret it's all part of the concept and it's meant to allow the actors to be more spontaneous in their improvisation that's also why each actor is only allowed to perform the piece once in the meantime thousands of actors have done that including rahman carrying miley preparation is to not prepare you know not google not think about it too much i just want to be vulnerable as possible with it because. i think the whole point of broadway producers tom k

joined now by theater creator nasim soleimani poor who lives in berlin but wrote the play white rabbit red rabbit in 2010 when he was still in iran so in the same you've said that this device of keeping the play a secret even for the actor was born out of necessity what do you mean by that. well hello to you and everyone thank you just like in 2001 you might know i was a still in iran and in war and i was really keen to to do a show globally so i thought maybe i can shift some paradigm. in that in the future as like a structure came up we did. something with you supposed to be formed fight and theme quite a 1st time with an actor in front of a live audience and the actor basically is reading your voice now i've got a question about the story so if there are any actors out there who might perform this play some day stop watching right here. i understand that the end of the play there's that the actor who's playing here is basically instructed to do something terrible to him or herself it's a kind of test whether the audience will intervene why did you include that. well i think it's a choice you'r