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2006 Tony Award Nominee for Best
Play by David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Theodore Swetz Featuring: Cynthia Hyer, Larry Greer, Kathleen Warfel, Katie Gilchrist and Joe Mayers
January
19
- February 11, 2007 Talk Back performances January 23, 28, and 30
Performance
interpreted for the deaf on January 25
Rabbit Hole is the intensely moving story about a family and their search for hope. A wedge is being driven between Becca and Howie as they heal from the loss of their young son in different ways. Rabbit Hole is an orchestration of quiet truth; funny, heartbreaking, and rich with rising, clear-eyed hope. Beyond the overarching circumstance of the play, it is the relationships between sisters, mother and daughters, and husband and wife that allow us to recognize ourselves in the characters and care deeply about their lives.    Photos by Cynthia Levin
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Theodore Swetz
(Director)
returns to
Kansas City after a five year absence which took him to
Binghamton University in New York where he taught acting and
directing. He now serves UMKC¹s professional actor
training program, as the Patricia McIlrath Endowed Professor
of Theater. He is especially happy to be - once again - a
part of the extraordinary Unicorn Theatre, where in the past
he has directed All in the Timing, Mojo and
Sideman. During the past year Ted has had the artistic
pleasure of working with the creative folks at the Coterie
Theater where he directed Ferdinand the Bull ,and at
the Kansas City Actors Theater where he staged Talley’s
Folly. And, later this year (April) Ted is looking
forward to directing Twelth Night for UMKC. Having
played many principal roles at the Missouri Rep, he also
looks forward to getting back on the boards as an actor.
Ted celebrates, and is proud to be a part of, the vibrant
artistic community here in Kansas City.
Larry Greer
(Howie)
is an actor/director/teacher with nearly 20 years experience
on local stages. Most recently seen at KC Rep as Marley in
A Christmas Carol, his favorite roles include Michael
in Dancing at Lughnasa (Great Plains Theatre
Festival), Jonathan in Arsenic and Old Lace (New
Theatre), Caliban in The Tempest (HASF), Edgar/Jane
in Mystery of Irma Vep and Edmund in King Lear
(both at Boarshead Theatre). He staged the Unicorn
production of Cats Paw and won a Best Director award
for Over the River and Through the Woods at Olathe
Community Theatre. Mr. Greer holds an MFA from the
Hilberry Theatre in Detroit and currently serves
as President of AFTRA, Kansas City local 213. A strong
advocate for arts in schools, he works at Kansas City Young
Audiences as the Director of Arts Education. Larry last
appeared on the Unicorn stage as Achilles in Living in
Exile in 1991, a joint production with the Rep.
Kathleen
Warfel (Nat)
gladly returns to the Unicorn having most recently
appeared here as the culinary diva Susie in Omnium
Gatherum. Her history at the Unicorn is long and varied
including roles in Desert Holiday, Beauty Queen of
Leenane, Keeley and Du, Reckless, The Heidi
Chronicles, and Burn This. She has also been
seen in Kansas City Actors Theatre productions of 5th of
July, Talley and Son and their inaugural production of The
Cripple of Innishmaan; at KC Rep in A Christmas
Carol, Major Barbara, The Seagull, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A
Delicate Balance, Julius Caesar, Our Town; at the
American Heartland in The Odd Couple (female version) ,
Steel Magnolias; at the Heart of America Shakespeare
Festival in Mac Beth, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard
III, Romeo and Juliet; and in many other shows and
theatres now current and defunct! Kathleen thanks you for
supporting the theatre and all efforts toward it's continued
health! Much love to husband Wayne Siegert for is
efforts toward that and so
much more.
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