Rabbit Hole - Staged Reading, Drama
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Producer: Kit Seidel
Directed by Danny Polaski
RABBIT HOLE is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. www.dramatists.com
STAGED READING
RATING: PG-13
RUNTIME: 90 minutes. + 15 Minute Intermission
ADMISSION: $10+ fees
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PERFORMANCES:
Friday, August 29 at 7:30
Saturday, August 30 at 7:30
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
CAST:
Coming Soon…
Audience advisory: Rabbit Hole is a deeply moving and beautifully honest play that explores how a family navigates life after an unimaginable loss. While there are touches of humor and hope, the story also leans into themes of grief, healing, and emotional resilience.
This production includes:
• Mature subject matter involving the loss of a child
• Emotional content and scenes of intensity
• Some strong language
Recommended for ages 13 and up. Parental guidance is suggested..
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rabbit Hole is a deeply moving exploration of grief, love, and the delicate path toward healing. Becca and Howie are a couple grappling with the sudden loss of their young son, each navigating sorrow in ways that pull them apart even as they long to reconnect. As family tensions rise and the teenager involved in the accident reaches out, the boundaries of forgiveness, memory, and resilience are tested. With moments of humor, honesty, and quiet grace, Rabbit Hole offers a powerful look at the human capacity to endure the unendurable—and to find hope on the other side.
WHAT IS A STAGED READING - A staged reading is live storytelling with scripts in hand—actors use voice and expression to bring the play to life, inviting the audience to imagine the world through the playwright’s words.
WHAT CRITICS SAY:
“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.” —The Star-Ledger (NJ).