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| Patti Suarez and Larah Pawlowski photo by Mark Gluckman |
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"While the title of David Lindsay-Abaire's play Rabbit Hole may allude to the fantasy world of "Alice in Wonderland," this expertly written drama is anything but fantastical. It focuses on the day to day lives of normal people and how grief impacts them as they struggle to deal with the aftermath of the death of a child. Theatre Artists Studio's beautifully moving and smartly directed production of this Pulitzer Prize winning play features a superb cast led by Larah Pawlowski as the mother of the child....one of the best written plays of the last 15 years. It's a moving drama that depicts how people handle heartache and loss in their own distinct ways. Lindsay-Abaire's realistic characters and natural dialogue are so smartly written, his structure builds with each scene adding important information and his plot doesn't have a single extraneous moment. ...Barbara Acker's subtle but smart direction ensures that each actor infuses their character with realness...As the grieving mother Becca, Larah Pawlowski beautifully portrays the emotionally isolated woman who can't quite figure out how to handle the devastation of losing her child. ...Her natural and fluent portrayal is haunting, heartbreaking and moving in its subtle impact..Patti Suarez is superb as Becca's mother Nat, who also suffered the loss of a child several years back and is trying her best to find some way to relate to her daughter's predicament. ...Is there a right way to grieve? How long should someone be allowed to suffer? Does the pain of the loss of a child ever go away? These are just a few of the many questions that David Lindsay-Abaire raises and which are expertly relayed in Theatre Artists Studio's solid production..... " -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
"In David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize winning drama, RABBIT HOLE, death is a riddle and grief is its nemesis and ordinary people struggle to unravel the mystery of it all. With a cast that captures the angst and humanity of its characters, Theatre Artists Studio's production, directed by Barbara Acker, is a solemn and reverential journey into the heart of darkness and the light at the end of the mourning cave....Lindsay-Abaire has provided the deftly crafted words to a play of deep and resonant emotion. Theatre Artists Studio's superb cast has filled them with depth of authenticity and heart......." - Herbert Paine, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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