About
the Play:
Rabbit Hole has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues, Male Monologues, and Female/Female Scenes.
Rabbit Hole is a full-length drama by David
Lindsay-Abaire. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the
grieving process of a suburban couple whose four-year-old only child
was hit by a car and killed eight months earlier. Rabbit Hole
is a beautifully written, surprisingly funny, intensely human play
about excruciating loss and the gradual possibility of dawning
recovery.
Rabbit Hole is an insightful examination of the tragedy,
grief, and consequences of the accidental death of a young boy. The
story of a young couple's, heartbreak and forgiveness and how it
affects those around them – told with wit and honesty through daily
moments and emotional hurdles – as a family moves on after the
accidental death of their 4-year-old son. Becca and Howie Corbett
have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident
turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting
perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search
for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead
them back into the light of day.
Rabbit Hole premiered in 2006 on Broadway under the
auspices of Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) and received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama, five Tony nominations, and the Spirit of America
Award. It's Canadian premiere was in an Alberta Theatre Projects
production at Martha Cohen Theatre in 2007. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and
has become a popular choice for school and community theatre
productions.
Cast: 3 female, 2 male
What people say:
"A beautifully observed new
play blessed with David Lindsay-Abaire's
customary grace and wit." — New York Times
"David Lindsay-Abaire
has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation —
an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit,
insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." — Variety
"Grade: A! A transcendent and
deeply affecting new play, which shifts perfectly from hilarity to
grief." — Entertainment Weekly
"Rabbit Hole
presents a tragedy and its consequences with utter candor, and
without sentimentality. The dialogue is most impressive for capturing
the awkwardness and pain of thinking people faced with an unthinkable
situation — and eventually, their capacity for survival, and even
hope." — USA Today
"With Rabbit Hole,
David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most
serious, simply told work of his career — a painstakingly
beautiful, dramatically resourceful, exquisitely human new play."
— BackStage
"A thoroughly absorbing,
profoundly affecting and painfully touching examination of grief."
— Bergen Record
"The highest praise to
playwright David Lindsay-Abaire! Rabbit
Hole is an entertaining and satisfying play — it might
just be the year's best." — Show Business Weekly
"A perceptive and poignant
study in the day-to-day aches of bereavement: problems with personal
intimacy, the uneasy friends who don't call, the emptiness in a house
packed with reminders … Heartbreaking in its theme and details,
Rabbit Hole is a beautifully crafted work of
great sensitivity." — Star-Ledger
About the Playwright:
David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright, lyricist,
librettist and screenwriter. He is the author of Rabbit Hole,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His other theatre works
include Good People, Fuddy Meers, and Kimberly Akimbo. He is Co-Chair
of the Juilliard School's Playwriting Program.