Let’s be clear: Rabbit Hole is not another adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. Despite that Carroll-echoing title, it is a story about love. It’s also a story about loss, grief, and pain. And then there’s that wickedly prickly humour…

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. First of all, Rabbit Hole was a play. Penned by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, it was a departure for a scribbler best known for his absurdist comedies (see Fuddy Meers).

Having just become a new father, Abaire decided it was time to move away from comedy and write about something that terrified him – the loss of his newborn child.

“I just wrote about what I knew,” he says. “Sometimes it was conscious, sometimes it wasn't. I knew I wanted to write a story about loss and people grieving in different ways.” And Rabbit Hole was born…