Rabbit Hole
Seneca Community Players receives two awards for "Rabbit Hole"

Seneca Community Players production of "Rabbit Hole" received two Roving Adjudicator Merit Awards from the Theater Association of New York State (TANYS).

Laura Feligno was awarded "Outstanding Acting" for her portrayal Becca Corbett and the entire cast received "Meritorious Achievement in Ensemble Acting."

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole" is an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty. A story of loss, heartbreak and forgiveness, as a family moves on after the accidental death of their four-year-old, it is a perceptive and poignant study in the day-to-day aches of bereavement: problems with personal intimacy, the uneasy friends who don't call, and the emptiness in a house packed with reminders.

Paul Nelson, the adjudicator applauded SCP for bringing "Rabbit Hole" to the stage. "The company took on the challenge of a beautifully wriiten but complex play and made it appear effortless. Their production was engaging and thought provoking."

"Rabbit Hole" was staged at the Main Street School auditorium in Waterloo, October 14,15, & 16 and 21 & 22.

The mission of TANYS is "to foster the contribution of theatre to the lives of the citizens of New York State, to promote high standards of theatre practice through education and example and to encourage exchanges of information and knowledge through people-to-people and theatre-to-theatre exchanges.

 

 

Original Press release

Seneca Community Players announces the cast for its upcoming production of "Rabbit Hole," David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play. "Rabbit Hole" is a vivid, hopeful, honest, and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations. Both sad and funny, it is a deeply human look at one family’s attempts to return to a sense of normalcy, all the while realizing that their lives can never be the same.

Laura Feligno and B. Simeon Goldstein, both of Geneva, play Becca and Howie Corbett, a couple trying to cope with a parent's deepest nightmare. Carrie Massey, of Waterloo, portrays Becca’s lively sister, Izzy, and Patty Fisher, of Auburn, is their outspoken and overbearing mother, Nat. Rounding out the cast is Dan Rivera, of Romulus, as Jason, a high school senior whose life has accidentally become entwined with the Corbett's.

"Rabbit Hole" is directed by John King, of Waterloo. An experienced actor and director, King has drawn together a top-notch staff and crew to assist him in bringing the story of the Corbett family to local audiences: Steve Mitchell, producer; Rhonda Jasper, stage manager; Brianna Wickard, assistant stage manager; Lynn Patti, set design; Kris Marble, costumes, hair & makeup; Ralph Sinicropi, sound design; Becky Bly, technical director and lighting design; Jane Roberts, props; Dan Papperman, master carpenter; Lynn Patti & John King, scenic charge artists; Kevin Schoonover, publicity; KC Mooneyhan, program; Chris King and John King, Jr., set construction, light and sound board operation. The staff, cast and crew of "Rabbit Hole" welcome aboard Maryruth Ingersoll, of Seneca Falls, who is getting her feet wet by trying her hand at several areas of the production process.

"Rabbit Hole" will be staged at the Main Street School auditorium in Waterloo, Oct. 14, 15, 16, 21 and 22. Friday and Saturday shows start at 8 p.m. The Sunday performance starts at 2. Tickets are $10 in advance; $12 at the door. Pre-sale tickets are available at WomanMade Products in Seneca Falls, Area Records & Music in Geneva, or by phone at 315-568-9364.

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