Rabbit Hole

David Lindsay-Abaire · 2006 CE · Play · Modern / American · Contemporary

Eight months after their four-year-old son was killed by a car, a Westchester couple cannot agree on how to live with the loss. The wife's mother and sister and the teenage driver of the car intrude on the couple's separate ways of grieving. Premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2006, a drama of bereavement that is neither melodrama nor consolation.

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