Rabbit Hole

By J. Cooper Robb
Add Comment Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Nov. 3, 2009

A horrifying incident is the focus of David Lindsay-Abaire’s beautiful play Rabbit Hole, currently receiving a deeply affecting production at the Arden Theatre Company.

The play begins eight months after Howie (Brian Russell) and Becca (Grace Gonglewski) lost their 4-year-old son Danny in a tragic accident. Their grief is almost unbearable and everywhere they turn they see reminders of Danny, his little clothes, robot bed sheets, even other children they encounter in the supermarket. Becca’s sister (Julianna Zinkel) and mother (Janis Dardaris) try to help but the couple is inconsolable.

Director James J. Christy remarkably well acted production (Temple University undergrad Aaron Stall is magnificent as the traumatized teen who accidently kills Danny with his car) doesn’t shy away from the couple’s misery, but though the show is occasionally painful to watch it is not unrelentingly sad. A 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, Lindsay-Abaire’s extraordinarily well play is never sentimental or manipulative. Instead it’s an honest, tender and at times humorous story of people struggling with unimaginable pain. Howie and Becca argue, cry and lash out, but they go on living. In the end their relationship is damaged and altered, but amazingly still intact.

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