WHITWORTH THEATRE PRESENTS RABBIT HOLE
By David Lindsay-Abaire Directed By Chris HansenContent warning: Please be advised this production contains adult language, drug use and mentions of child loss and suicide. Discretion is advised.
CAST
Howie ..............................................................................................
Connor Wodehouse
Becca .................................................................................................
Mekenna Simpson
Izzy ...................................................................................................................
Anna Reitz
Nat ................................................................................................................. Sierra Pauley
Jason ..............................................................................................................
Ruth Geneti
Male Swing .......................................................................................................
Female Swing .................................................................................................
Ali Aboud
Zoe Picken
CREW
Director ........................................................................................................ Chris Hansen
Intimacy Choreographer ............................................................................Emily Rollie
Scenic & Lighting Designs .................................................................... Maria L. Sorce
Costume Design Alyssa Calder-Day
Technical Director Maria L. Sorce
Assistant Director Lynzie Kenney
Assistant Technical Director Robert Batchelder
Stage Manager Mackenzie Quinn
Sound Design Max Broennle
Lobby Display Bella Friedman
Hair & Makeup Design Anna Daniel
Lighting Design Assistant ................................................................... Camryn Moore
Assistant Stage Managers ......................................... Angelina Nolan, Kyle Gilbert
Wardrobe Manager..................................................................................... Lyra Cupala
Costume Assistant .................................................................................. Lydia McNelly
Scenic Carpenter .................................................................................... Lynzie Kenney
Scenic Charge ................................................................................................ Zoe Picken
Scenic Crew ................................................... Sydney Anderson, Micah Armstrong, Aaron Bratt, Max Broennle, Julia Crandell, Anna Daniel, Mu Mu Dun, Rab Greenup, Lynzie Kenney, Jared McDougall, Malachi Moore, Carl Noel, Angelina Grace Nolan, Titilope Olatunji, Samuel Ortega, Theophilus Owusu, Zoe Picken, Ava Plotnikova, Stella Reitz, Alyssa Sorce, Michael St. Marie, Lucas Trigg, Henry Wheeler, Connor White, Nick Yochum
House Manager ................................................................................ Sierra Van Der Pol
Box Office ....................................................................... Stella Reitz, Bailey Wilmeth
Programs/Publicity/Box Office .............................................................. Kim Dawson
Interim Theatre Chair ............................................................................. Erica R. Salkin
Graphic Design ................................................................................ Tamara Burkhead
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Rabbit Hole is a piece that allows the audience into a space of grief from a safe but familiar distance. The characters of Howie and Becca are stricken with a challenge parents pray never happens. Their journey forward pushes and pulls them apart both physically and psychologically. Their other relationships between friends and family hinder or help along this path in honest dialogue that relates to life when the unexplainable happens.
I was drawn to this piece for the main reason that these characters exist in our communities. Loss and grief are always possible. Some of us receive more than others, and most of us never get a chance to prepare for that level of emotion. Every day we are challenged to self-regulate or incur the wrath of being viewed as less than or weak. Hold back tears, don’t get angry, just regain the status quo and march on. The questions I ask you as an audience are these: Where does forgiveness start? Is it with the self, the injured, the accused, your guardians? When is forgiveness learned? Can you truly know it until you’ve lived it?
I want you to see through the systematic pressure we all face day to day in our work onstage. See through the masks and façade we all put on just to push forward. This home is out of touch with both itself and those within it. Memories of what was challenge what could be again in every part of the space. So, see them. See their whole soul come forward among this real moment of courage and fear. See their journey and allow them space to be human. Be there for them after they go. Grief is always present in love, for it is the first to arrive to tell us we did.
MCDONALD OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS
Box Office Manager – Bailey Wilmeth
Community Engagement – Fiona Beattie
Costume Assistant – Lydia McNelly
House Manager – Sierra Van Der Pol
Lighting Design – Henry Wheeler
Makeup Designer – Anna Daniel
Projection Designer – Bella Friedman
Scenic Carpenter – Lynzie Kenney
Scenic Charge – Zoe Picken
Sound Designer – Max Broennle
Stage Manager – Mackenzie Quinn
Technical Director, Stage II – Jared McDougall
Wardrobe Manager – Lyra Cupala
WHITWORTH THEATRE
Whitworth Theatre is dedicated to cultivating artistic integrity by making theatre that engages both mind and heart with honesty, compassion and hope. Students in Whitworth Theatre reach beyond their personal experiences to portray stories from all walks of life in an ongoing dialogue with the audience about the human experience.
Our academic theatre program stimulates creativity and discipline through classes in performance, directing, dance, design, history and literature. We offer two annual main-stage productions, a festival of short plays and an improvisation troupe. The core production offerings are complemented with senior projects, community-based works, tours, visiting artists and stage readings.
For more information about Whitworth Theatre, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact the theatre office at 509.777.3707 or email kdawson@ whitworth.edu.
COMING IN FALL 2024
Into The Woods
Oct. 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 and 20 at 2 p.m.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
As followers of Christ, we are compelled to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God. It is our love of God and neighbor that leads us to offer the following statement: a xest sxľxaľt. Welcome, everyone. We acknowledge that we gather today on the traditional homelands of the four bands of the Spokane Tribe of Indians: Sntut úlix w , Snx w mén e , Scqesciłni and Sčewile . Since time immemorial, the Spokane Tribe of Indians has lived prosperously on this land, identifying themselves as “sqélix w,” or “flesh of the land.” We pay our respects to their Elders – past, present and emerging – and we acknowledge their continuing connection with the land, waters and culture. We honor God with gratitude for the land itself and the peoples who have fished, hunted, harvested and gathered here for generations. This acknowledgment recognizes the first custodians of this land, the suffering they endured, and the continued restoration and healing needed. It is important to understand the history that has brought us to reside here, because such understanding fosters a more united community that honors and embraces the first peoples of Spokane. We thank the Spokane Tribe members for sharing their stories, culture and language to develop this welcome. lem lmtš šey u hoy.
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