Dear audience,
Sadly we can’t reveal that all that much about this one. It would sour the experience for both you and the actor. To whet your appetite, however, we can say that Cook is about food, stories and community.
Nassim Soleimanpour’s latest work involves cooking a recipe on stage in a story of how food brings ingredients and people together. A new actor takes to the stage fresh each night having never before seen the script. A charming new show with a taste of philosophical questions.
Jesper Pedersen is a Copenhagen based writer and director working within theatre and transmedia. He also teaches courses on pervasive gaming at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
Nassim Soleimanpour is from Tehran, Iran. His plays have been translated into more than 20 languages. Best known for his play White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written to travel the world when he couldn’t, his work has been awarded the Dublin Fringe Festival Best New Performance, Summerworks Outstanding New Performance Text Award and The Arches Brick Award (Edinburgh Fringe) as well as picking up nominations for a Total Theatre and Brighton Fringe Pick of Edinburgh Award.
By the time Nassim was permitted to travel for the first time in early 2013, his play White Rabbit Red Rabbit had been performed hundreds of times in more than a dozen languages. Since then Nassim has facilitated workshops and panels in different events including World Theatre Festival (Brisbane), Tolhuistuin (Amsterdam), SESC Vila Mariana (Sao Paulo), Schauspielhaus (Vienna), DPAC (Kuala Lampur), Theatretreffen (Berlin), Grob Theatre (Copenhagen), British Council, University of Bremen (Germany), Tata Literature Live (India) and etc.
Nassim’s second play Blind Hamlet for the London based Actors Touring Company premiered at The LIFT 2014 and has toured in the UK and was received well in Bucharest and Copenhagen. BLANK is his third play which premiered in November 2015 simultaneously in Amsterdam, Utrecht and London and since then was performed in Scotland, Argentina, Australia, India and etc.
Nassim now lives in Berlin and is under commissions to write a play for Theatre Momentum (Odense).
Sarah-Jane Price graduated with a 1st class degree in Theatre, before going on to study a Post Graduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music from which she graduated with distinction. She has worked professionally as a performer and session singer for several years before realising her passion for casting.
Working for a variety of companies initially as a freelance runner and then a casting assistant, she then became a full casting director with Club11 London. Her work includes: Nassim Plays (Bush Theatre), Putting it Together (Belfast Lyric), Hello Again (The Hope Theatre), Adding Machine: A Musical (Finborough Theatre), Vanara (London Premiere) and various other shows, cabarets and theatre.
