Reviews
‘All the World’s a Stage’ TheatreWorks Brilliantly ‘Redecorates’, With ‘The Fourth Wall’
Anyone familiar with theater knows of the “fourth wall,” that imaginary barrier at the front of the stage through which viewers watch the onstage action. It is the boundary between reality and the imagined world of the playwright, the line between the fictional world and the audience. So what happens when this boundary is broken?…
‘Fourth Wall’ serves as spoof of theater, politics
So what do playwrights do in their spare time? If Roxbury’s A.R. Gurney is a prime example, they write more plays. Not plays necessarily meant for Broadway, but works in which the playwright (Gurney) can have fun using his skills to poke fun at the hand that feeds him (theater) as well as one of…
A.R. Gurney’s The Fourth Wall at New Milford’s TheatreWorks
There is more to playwright A. R. Gurney than meets the eye. Some critics view him as a dramatist who has a flair for depicting characters who inhabit a genteel, waspish world. Yet signs of a widened sensibility are also apparent in the work of the Buffalo-born playwright. Many of his dramas have small casts,…
Grief, hope play out in Rabbit ‘Hole’ – 5 out of 5 Stars
Becca and Howie Corbett are a typical young married couple with a small child. When a tragic accident befalls their young son, grief takes hold of them so profoundly that their marriage and lives are drained almost to empty. The strain of that loss has affected every aspect of their lives and they look at…
Rabbit Hole at New Milford’s Theatre Works
“Rabbit hole,” according to the dictionary, is “a bizarre or difficult state or situation.” The phrase comes from the plight of Lewis Carroll’s character, Alice (of Wonderland and Looking Glass fame). After dropping down a hole, Alice describes her ensuing experiences as “curiouser and curiouser.” The same might be said about David Lindsay-Abaire’s drama Rabbit Hole,…
A Very Enjoyable ‘Rabbit Hole’
‘NEW MILFORD — David Lindsay-Abaire, who won Awards for his work as the 4uthor and lyricist for the musical Shrek, wrote Rabbit Hole on the advice of one of his teachers at Juilliard, who told him to write a play about “something that frightened him.” As a father, he came up with the idea of a story…
A ‘Rabbit Hole’ TheatreWorks Stages Lindsay-Abaire Drama to Perfection
American Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is no stranger to TheatreWorks New Milford, which staged his hauntingly hilarious satire “Kimberly Akimbo” in 2005 and his uproarious “Fuddy Meers” in 2004. Now the theater has taken on the playwright’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winner for drama, “Rabbit Hole,” a production unlike his other works. There aren’t any amnesiacs (“Fuddy Meers”)…
‘Rabbit Hole’ is touching drama about tragedy, grief and closure
David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Rabbit Hole,” at TheatreWorks in New Milford, is a play about tragedy, grief and closure. It’s a small, slice-of-life, “kitchen sink” drama that scores its points as much by what is unsaid – as is. Becca (Jackie Decho-Holm) and her husband Howie (Kevin Sosbe) are internally devastated by the death of their 4-year…
Piece on grief is a delight
Chances are you’ve been to a play or two where the most memorable scene was the request to turn off cell phones and unwrap candy before the show begins. Never fear. After the lights dim out in the final, wrenching scene of David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Rabbit Hole,” the only way you’ll remember those mundane requests will…
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