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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">The Ghent
Playhouse continues its production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s
Pulitzer Prize winning play, </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Rabbit Hole</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">The play runs through Sunday, June 7 with performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and
Sundays at 2 pm.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">Rabbit Hole</font></span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">, a drama infused with moments of
humor and glimpses of hope, charts the Corbett’s bittersweet search for comfort
following a family tragedy and a path that will lead them back to finding one
another and into the light of day. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">Tamara
Gardner of Lee, Massachusetts is a newcomer to the Ghent stage and takes on the
role of Becca Corbett, half of a couple whose perfect world is suddenly turned
upside down after a life-shattering accident leaves the two drifting perilously
apart.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Tamara made her acting debut last
year in Town Players of Pittsfield’s production of </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Months on End </font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">and soon after was cast in Mill City’s production of </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Cinderella Goes Disco</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">Jonathan Slocum
of Pittsfield, Massachusetts plays her husband, Howie Corbett, a man struggling
to find a way to move on after tragedy.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3">
</font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Jonathan has appeared on the Playhouse stage previously in </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Enchanted April</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3"> and </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">The Heiress</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Jonathan has
produced and directed for Town Players of Pittsfield and has performed in over
a dozen productions in the past decade.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">Hana Kenny is
cast as Becca’s pregnant and free-spirited sister, Izzy.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Hana is an actor, singer and artist from
Great Barrington, Massachusetts.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">This is her first time at the Ghent Playhouse,
but Hana is active with Homespun Theatre Company in Great Barrington and
Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">Lael Locke of
Chatham, New York is Nat, Becca and Izzy’s mother, a strong woman already surviving
loss when this tragedy occurred. This is the third mother that Lael has played in
her 12 appearances on the Ghent stage including roles in </font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Equus</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">,
</font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">The Countess</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3"> and </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">The Mad Woman of Chaillot</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Lael
has been active with the Town Players of Pittsfield, the MacHaydn Theatre, The
Berkshire Playhouse and others.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">The role of
Jason, the young man involved in the accident that changed the lives of our
characters forever is being played by Thomas Reilly of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">A 17 year old in the wrong place at the wrong
time who will spend his life dealing with the gravity of that one moment.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">John Trainor
of New Lebanon, New York, who was last seen in GPH’s 2015 production of </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Heroes,</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3"> steps off the Ghent stage and
into the Director’s chair for this production.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3">
</font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">His previous directorial credits at the Playhouse include </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Crimes of the Heart</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">, </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Man of La Mancha, The Road to Mecca</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">, </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">The Good Doctor</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">, </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Proof</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">, and </font><i><font color="#000000" size="3">Dancing at
Lughnasa</font></i><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">This
production is being produced by GPH Board President Nancy Hammell.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">The set is designed by GPH Artistic Director
Cathy Lee-Visscher.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Lighting design is
by John Collins and sound design by Monk Shane-Lydon.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Joanne Maurer is the costume designer.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000" size="3">The Ghent
Playhouse is located at 6 Town Hall Place – just off Route 66 in the Town of
Ghent in Columbia County, New York.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Tickets
are $20 each, $17 for Friends of the Playhouse and $10 for Students with ID.</font><span><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" size="3">Tickets may be reserved by calling
1-800-838-3006 or going to the website at </font><a href="http://www.ghentplayhouse.org/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">www.ghentplayhouse.org</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">Linda Murawski</font> for The Ghent Playhouse 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, NY 12075 (518) 392-6264</font></div></div>
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