PRINCETON - A free, online reading of “Rabbit Hole,” a play by David Lindsay-Abaire, will be presented by Festival 56 on Friday, Jan. 8 at 7:30 p.m. The reading, which will feature the cast of Festival 56’s summer 2019 production directed by Emily Wirkus, will be offered as a Zoom webinar.

Although there will be no charge, online registration is required by going to festival56.com. After registering, a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar will be sent. Please note, due to copyright restrictions, the reading will not be recorded and will ONLY be available for viewing on the performance date and time.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play utilizes funny dialogue, characters with large personalities, and poignant moments of connection to focus on how one family learns to support each other through life’s challenges. As this family engages with magical thinking, pregnancy, anger, unexpected humor, therapy, and unanswerable questions, they ultimately attempt to make sense of the “rabbit hole” that produces increasingly difficult and unpredictable situations.

The cast of “Rabbit Hole” includes Kaitlyn Weickel (Becca), Eric Shonk (Howie), Janna Schmid (Izzy), Kathy Missel (Nat), and Cole Winston (Jason).

This production is made possible by a grant from The Arts of Starved Rock Country Fund. Grant funding is provided in part by the Community Arts Access Program of the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.