Rabbit Hole: 2007 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama Presented By Camelot Artists Productions
Skylight Theatre (1816 1/2 N. Vermont Los Angeles, CA 90027)
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The last date listed for Rabbit Hole was Sunday September 28, 2008 / 7:00pm.
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54 Goldstar Member Reviews
Pam
This was a very intense, highly moving production. It was so well done.Written on Aug 18 2008
I felt like this was a play I could be seeing at the Mark Taper. The cast was excellent. Overall, I really responded to the writing. The playwright captured the torment and pain that goes along with grief, as well as the dark humor one must have to survive. Be ready for a truly rich theater experience that stays with you for a long time.
Thank you Goldstar, as always for the offering.
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maggie g
WOW! All I can say is Thank God for BHP and Camelot Artists! This was an amazing show with impeccable acting. Brynn Thayer was masterful as the never dull, sometimes borderline crass NAT. I couldn't wait for her to come back onstage. Brynn if you are still in recreating mode this was a giant successful leap!Written on Jul 13 2008
Everyone was wonderful This is not an easy show because of the very sensitive subject matter. But the actors handled it with such truth and wonderfully real performances, that they really were not performing at ALL! The top of one and the end are great reminders that we were all just voyeurs in the lives of a family struck with tragedy.
Also incredible hats off to Allen Barton for his clarity and neurosurgeon-like precision as a director. As an actor I felt a sharp pang of envy having realized what a terrific experience this must have been for the actors to be directing by such a master!
I am thrilled to report, in my humble opinion, that great theatre is not DEAD in LA you just have to unearth it!
If you are lucky enough to see Rabbit Hole you will strike PRICELESS treasure!
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lu
I must say that this play was well attended by a lot of ppl in D showbiz industry D night we came to see it. Howie's character (Jay Huguley), was the best performance of the night from facial expresion to deliverance. The play was very good and well acted by characters. A little sad if ur going out with a date but its something different for a change. Had D chance to see the softer side of my date (a cop) and to see if he can tolerate attending plays like this which i love to do.Written on Jul 28 2008
the scene with Becca and Jason in the living room was boring tho. The seats were comfortable and being there first, we have the best seat in the house. Over all experience, Loved it. Thank you GOLDStAR....
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karmakelli
A lot like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” The couple’s son died, and working through their grief is an open abrasive relentless wound.Written on Oct 08 2008
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More Information About Rabbit Hole
Description
Camelot Artists: The Theatre Company of The Beverly Hills Playhouse presents David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole.
Rabbit Hole tells the story of Becca and Howie a married couple with a secret grief – eight months earlier, their 4-year-old son Danny was killed by a car. Since Danny’s death, Becca looks for ways to move on from the tragedy but finds her methods don’t align with Howie’s. Becca’s mother Nat, who has also dealt with the loss of a child, is little comfort to Becca as well. Izzy, Becca’s pregnant sister, further complicates the family situation.
The piece is really about what David Lindsay-Abaire says all his pieces are about…people finding themselves in a world that has turned upside-down and trying to find a way to move forward. It is about grief, but it’s also about redefining and re-discovering relationships. And it’s ultimately about hope.
Rabbit Hole received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Rabbit Hole is directed by Allen Barton and stars Courtney Cole, Chad Hamblin, Kathryn Harrold, Jay Huguley, Kristina Kreyling, Kayla Radin, Samantha Sloyan, Pete Stamos and Brynn Thayer. All actors alternate performances.
Allen Barton most recently directed The Last Five Years for Camelot. He is a frequent director for Camelot including the world premiere of About Faith (2001), as well as Pink Dot (2005) and Suzanne Whang’s hit one-person show, I Make You Laughing (2005). As a writer, he has written several one-act plays including Pearls Before Swine, The Engagement, and most recently directed his one-act Baja Fresh for Camelot’s One Act festival. Also in Los Angeles he directed the Guerilla Rep’s inaugural production of Burn This in 2006. Allen has written & directed five short films including Cannes in 1999 and Reach Out, and his first feature screenplay, Real Music, was a top-three finalist in the 2005 CAPE New Writers Award Competition. Allen has many years’ worth of L.A. stage, television and film credits as an actor, and he is also active as a classical pianist - he was a prizewinner in the 2002 Los Angeles Liszt Society Competition, has recorded four compact discs (available for download at the i-Tunes store) and performs solo recitals regularly on both coasts. A graduate of Harvard College and longtime student of Milton Katselas, Allen currently serves as the Executive Director of the Beverly Hills Playhouse, where he is also on the teaching staff.
Rabbit Hole marked David Lindsay-Abaire’s fourth play produced by MTC (Manhattan Theatre Club). His first, Fuddy Meers, premiered in 1999 and transferred to the Minetta Lane Theatre for a commercial run. It has since received more than 300 productions around the country and abroad, including on London’s West End. Wonder of the World was produced at MTC after premiering at Washington DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre, where it was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as Outstanding New Play of the Year. Kimberly Akimbo was commissioned and premiered by South Coast Rep and received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Playwriting, three Garland Awards and the Kesselring Prize before it opened at MTC in 2003. David is also currently working on the Broadway-bound musicals High Fidelity and Shrek. In addition to his work in theatre, David is writing the screen adaptation of the novel Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for New Line Cinema as well as a screen adaptation of his Kimberly Akimbo for Dreamworks. David is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School, as well as a proud member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild and the WGA.
In January 2007, it was announced that Lindsay-Abaire will pen a bigscreen adaptation of Rabbit Hole for Fox Searchlight.
About the Ticket Supplier: Katselas Theatre Company
For more than 20 years the Katselas Theatre Company has been a home for artists to create, develop, and risk boldly. Since our inception in 1983, we have presented more than 500 live theatre productions, many award winning. Originally known as Camelot Artists, we've played host to musicians, poets, actors and dancers. We have a long and proud association with the Beverly Hills Playhouse, one of Los Angeles' oldest and most celebrated acting schools.
We start with the beginning - artist and audience, inescapably intertwined. Through our programs and our main stage productions our aim is to create a place where artist and audience have an opportunity to journey together.