RABBIT HOLE

:''This article is about the play; rabbit hole can also be a more general term.''
'''Rabbit Hole''' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Commissioned by South Coast Repertory and first presented at its Pacific Playwrights Festival reading series in 2005, the play focuses on a couple, Becca and Howie, trying to cope with a terrible loss while Becca’s well-meaning mom and off-kilter sister attempt to lift their spirits, each in her own inimitable way.
After 23 previews, the Daniel Sullivan-directed Manhattan Theatre Club production opened on February 2, 2006 at the Biltmore Theatre, where it ran for 77 performances. The cast included Cynthia Nixon, Tyne Daly, John Slattery, Mary Catherine Garrison, and John Gallagher, Jr..
Ben Brantley of ''The New York Times'' described it as an "anatomy of grief [that] doesn't so much jerk tears as tap them, from a reservoir of feelings common to anyone who has experienced the landscape-shifting vacuum left by a death in the family." [1]
Before the Broadway closing, both the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Cleveland Play House announced plans to mount productions of the play [2]. It had its New England premiere in Boston in November 2006 [3].

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Awards and nominations

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Awards and nominations

★ Tony Award for Best Play (nominee)

★ Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Nixon, winner)

★ Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (Daly, nominee)

★ Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (nominee)

★ Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play (nominee)

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama (winner)

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