Rabbit

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Play Closed 7 October 2006

Trafalgar Studios 2 at the Whitehall Theatre, Whitehall, London

Following a sold-out premiere at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington, North London, earlier this year Nina Raine's Rabbit transfers to The Trafalgar Studio 2 for a five week season.

Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate Bella's 29th birthday. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the bar soon becomes a battlefield... Nina Raine's debut play Rabbit is ferociously funny and tender with heartbreak.

Cast includes Ruth Everett, Adam James, Hilton McRae, Charlotte Randle, Alan Westaway and Susannah Wise who all reprise their roles from the original Old Red Lion Theatre production, along with Martin Turner and Alan Westaway.

"Completely riveting. A truly stunning debut" The Spectator

"The 30 year old director Nina Raine turns playwright with Rabbit... As Raine enterainingly charts the small talk and tensions between the different sets of friends, more telling dialogue emerges amid familiar battle-of-the-sexes banter... The shifting dynamics of the group are deftly handled by the script and a strong cast - all credit to the director, who happens to be Nina Raine herself." The Times

"Excellent. A lively and thought-provoking evening" Time Out

"Nina Raine's sparky first play Rabbit is about trying to recover love, memories, the time when you thought you were invincible, the time when daddy kissed you goodnight and scared the demons under the bed away... The play is stuffed with observations that glint... this is a confident, promising debut... and the evening is so cleverly cast and beautifully played that these unattractive characters turn out to be highly entertaining company." The Guardian

"The best new play of the week - Terrific. A smart and bracing battle-of-the-sexes comedy. As accomplished and penetrating as Patrick Marber’s Closer" The Sunday Express

"Nina Raine's Rabbit is fun and fluffy but has a real bite to it. A PR high-flyer called Bella is celebrating her 29th birthday with a motley mix of well-wishers. The conversation, lively and spiky, swiftly breaks into a sex-war skirmish. Disdainful barrister Richard squares up to cool, caustic Bella over the double-standards, as he sees it, of modern female behaviour, while the others take sides." The Daily Telegraph