'Rabbit Hole' — Theatre Department Presents Pulitzer Prize Winning Play
Students from Utah State University's bachelor of fine arts acting program are featured in the cast of "Rabbit Hole" that runs March 24-28 at the Black Box Theatre (FAC 224) in the Chase Fine Arts Center.
Rabbit Hole promises something for everyone — love, loss, comedy and drama.
The Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University and its theater department present the Pulitzer winning play Tuesday-Saturday, March 24-28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Box Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center (FAC Room 224). An additional matinee is Saturday, March 28, at 2 p.m.
The play’s plot includes Becca and Howie Corbett who have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart.
Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
“The play focuses on a young family dealing with grief and loss,” Jason Spelbring, assistant professor in the Department of Theater Arts in the CCA and the play’s director, said. “The audience will experience a full range of emotions from humor to pain.”
The play is performed in the round, with audience members on all four sides of the stage area so patrons can feel like they are a part of the family.
“Just when the Corbett’s feel light and happy, someone undoubtedly says something wrong and the family dynamic shifts on a dime,” said Spelbring. “The cast has done a great job creating real people. The scenes like this with the whole family are my favorite.”
There will be one actor from each co-hort of the BFA acting program represented in the play and the production’s entire design team is made up of graduate and undergraduate students.
“The design team has done a remarkable job creating a world that is alive and cohesive and smart,” Spelbring said. “Stage management, set design, lighting design and sound design have outdone themselves.”
The assistant director of Rabbit Hole, Alexandria Jaramillo, graduated last year from the BFA acting program at USU.
“I gave Jaramillo an entire scene,” Spelbring said. “She took control, blocked it and the scene was seamless. You would never know which scene was the one she directed.”
Rabbit Hole contains adult language and content.
The play runs March 24-28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Box Theatre, located in the Chase Fine Arts Center on the USU Logan campus. A 2 p.m. matinee is Saturday, March 28. Tickets are $13adults, $10 seniors and youth, $8 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information or tickets, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s Logan campus, call 435-797-8022, or see the college’s Production Services website.
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Writer and contact: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
"Rabbit Hole" is performed in the round, with audience members on all four sides of the stage area, so patrons can feel like they are a part of the family.
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