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.