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Down the Rabbit Hole
SoHo Playhouse — March 4, 2026, 9:00 PM
Michael Shaw Fisher has a gift for the outrageous that does not announce itself as such. His Exorcistic snuck up on audiences with its gonzo energy and genuine wit. Now, with The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits, his Off-Broadway debut at SoHo Playhouse, he pulls the same trick from a different angle: a dinner party comedy that presents itself as farce and quietly, then not so quietly, reveals itself as something with actual teeth.
The setup is classic. Bobby and Elise are broke, stalled, and sharing a collegiate futon in a modest apartment. He is a former professor of literature now substitute teaching. Her business has failed. Into this precarity arrives Danielle, Bobby's ex-wife, now a best-selling sex therapist, alongside her billionaire husband Carson. The reunion is, naturally, not purely social. The wealthy couple have a proposal. What follows is 75 minutes of escalating revelations, each one more brazen than the last, a Jenga tower of bad ideas and worse decisions that somehow never collapses.
This is, at its core, an Indecent Proposal for the current moment, with the class anxiety dialed up and the veneer of politeness stripped away faster than you might expect. Fisher is not interested in letting anyone off the hook, including the audience. The question the play keeps returning to is the oldest and most reliable one in the repertoire of moral drama: what exactly is your price? And more uncomfortably: do you actually know it?
What rescues the show from its more mechanical moments is the cast. Richardson Cisneros-Jones as Carson is the clear standout, a man whose ego enters the room several beats before the rest of him does. He takes Fisher's sharpest lines and wrings them until they yield everything they have. Leigh Wulff as Elise brings a grounded anxiety to a role that could easily have tipped into caricature. Rebecca Larsen's Danielle is all composed menace, the smile of someone holding considerably better cards than anyone else at the table. Schoen Hodges as Bobby is the audience surrogate, the man in the room who is simultaneously the most reasonable and the most compromised, and Hodges navigates that contradiction with charm and genuine comic timing.
The show is not without unevenness. The first fifteen minutes find their footing slowly, laying groundwork that the play later earns but initially strains against. And certain resolutions arrive with slightly less force than the setup has promised. But Fisher has a talent that is worth naming specifically: he structures revelations the way a good magician structures a trick, keeping you focused on the wrong hand until it is far too late.
At 75 minutes, it asks very little of your time. It asks rather more of your comfort. That is a worthwhile trade.
The Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits ran at SoHo Playhouse, part of the International Fringe Encore Series, through March 28, 2026. Running time is 75 minutes, no intermission.
