Curiouser and curiouser!
In addition to our many learning and training experiences, we also bring stories to life on stage throughout the year, offering a range of productions that spark imagination and conversation. We're proud to have taken our work to the world-renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and we can't wait to share more exciting performances with you!
2023
Neil LaBute
The Shape of Things
Step into a world where love, art and personal transformation intertwine. Experience a captivating tale of relationships, power dynamics, and the boundaries of identity. Join Adam and Evelyn as their romance takes an unexpected turn, challenging notions of love, beauty, and the lengths we go to for acceptance.
With compelling characters and surprising twists, this gripping production explores the blurred lines between manipulation and personal expression, leaving audiences questioning the true shape of things. Don't miss your chance to be enthralled by this captivating theatrical journey that will have you contemplating the nature of relationships and the price of conformity.
Production
Director - Meg Adams
Producer - Courtney Beamish
Stage Manager - Courtney Beamish
Assistant Director / Stage Manager - Doelma Goldhorn
Cast
Adam - Denzel Derraj
Evelyn - Jenna McKellips
Jenny - Amy Amstutz
Philippa - Alannah Burns
Understudy - Tomi Gustaf
2022
Michelle Kholos Brooks
Hitler’s Tasters
The play is inspired by the real life stories of the young women who were conscripted during WWII as taste testers. The girls leave home for “work” every morning, spend all day in a single room together, before heading home again at night (if they’re lucky). This dark comedy, set in the “eating room” follows four girls as they discuss politics, boys, movie stars and what it might feel like to be poisoned.
Hitler’s Tasters is the seventh play for American playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks, winning the Susan Glaspell Award and being named Best of Fringe 2019. Kholos Brooks continues to tour with Hitler’s Tasters across the United States.
Production
Director - Meg Adams
Producer - Courtney Beamish
Stage Manager - Courtney Beamish
Cast
Anna - Olga Botsi
Hilda - Joëlle Stocker
Liesel - Amy Amstutz
Margot - Courtney Beamish
2021
Agatha Christie
The Rule of Three
Agatha Christie has done it again with this collection of three one-act plays. An Afternoon by the Seaside follows the lives of a group of people vacationing at the sea. News spreads quickly of an emerald necklace stolen from the wealthy and formidable Lady Beckman. When the Inspector shows up to search the beach huts, it becomes clear that everyone’s a suspect.
Set in a tiny, stark apartment, The Rats features a couple who rendezvous for a little extra-marital fun. But things quickly take a sinister turn when they discover a body … and that they’ve been secretly locked in.
The Patient, Mrs. Wingfield, lies in a hospital bed in a state of paralysis after falling from the balcony of her house. She is surrounded by family, but all is not what it seems. Did she fall, or was she pushed? Is there someone else in the room who knows the truth? Family bonds are tested as everyone begins to turn on each other.
Production
Director - Meg Adams
Producer - Courtney Beamish
Stage Manager - Courtney Beamish
Cast
Angela David
Anton Zherzdev
Jessica Blanchard
Jim Carson
Katherine Ankudinov
Lira Low
Marianne Alewine
Roni Aus der Au
Stefan Kahn
2020
Harold Pinter
One for the Road; Ashes to Ashes
White Rabbit returns for a second consecutive year to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest theatre festival in the world. This year, we will bring two pieces, performed on alternating days.
In Ashes to Ashes, Rebecca reveals her haunting past to Devlin in dreamlike snapshots of horror and atrocity. What bond holds these two together is stretched to breaking point as the truth is painfully revealed psychologically, emotionally and physically.
Perhaps Pinter’s most political theatrical statement, One for the Road, rings terrifyingly true as we enter our new decade. A room. A family. An office. A government in total control. Pinter creates a tense and disturbing vision of a world we have known and could know again.
Production
Director - Anita Gander
Producer - Courtney Beamish
Stage Manager - Christina Whiting
Cast
Ciaran Corsar
Courtney Beamish
Tomi Gustaf
2019
Scott Carter
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord
The play with the longest title, or “Discord” was our passion-project of 2019. We performed a one-night-only staged reading of the production in March, as a fundraiser before taking the show on the road to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, where we did a run of 13 shows, before finishing up with a week-long production in October in Winterthur for our Swiss community to see the final product, fresh from our time on tour.
Production
Director - Claudia Wicki
Producer - Courtney Beamish
Stage Manager - Courtney Beamish
Cast
Charles Dickens - Ciaran Corsar
Count. Leo Tolstoy - Tomi Gustaf
Thomas Jefferson - Luke Walker
2018
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
This timeless classic, presented with a modern twist, seemed the perfect maiden production for a fresh new little company - not to mention, it gave us the name of our mysterious white rabbit … Ernest! Our inaugural show was performed at Theater am Gleis in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Production
Director - Caroline Kuehn
Producer - Courtney Beamish
Stage Manager - Daniele Degani
Lighting Design - Luke Walker
Sound Design / Operation - Tim Purdue
Props - Karen Siber
Cast
Algernon Montcrief - Pepper Lebeck-Jobe
Cecily Cardew - Joëlle Stocker
Gwendolyn Fairfax - Courtney Beamish
Jack Worthington - Ciaran Corsar
Lady Bracknell - Claudia Wicki
Miss Prism - Marianne Alewine
Meriman / Lane - Roni Aus der Au
Rev. Chasuble - Jim Carson