In Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice follows a mysterious white rabbit into a rabbit hole to enter 'Wonderland', an absurd and improbable world inhabited by many strange characters. This usage has helped make the phrase refer more generally to any portal into a different or strange world, such as:

• The character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix uses this metaphor when he offers the character Neo the opportunity to enter "the real world".
• In the film What the bleep do we know!?
• The term is used in alternate reality games to describe the initial page or clue that brings the player into the fictional world of the game.
• Rabbit Hole is the name of a play by David Lindsay-Abaire.
• Rabbit Hole Ensemble is a theatre company in New York City.

By extension the term has also come to signify any event which triggers a completely unexpected situation.

After 23 previews, the Daniel Sullivan-directed Manhattan Theatre Club production opened on February 2, 2006 at the Biltmore Theatre, where it ran for 77 performances. The cast included Cynthia Nixon, Tyne Daly, John Slattery, Mary Catherine Garrison, and John Gallagher Jr..

Before the Broadway closing, both the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Cleveland Play House announced plans to mount productions of the play It had its New England premiere in Boston in November 2006

One of many themes explored by this play is quantum immortality.

Film Adaptation

Awards and nominations

• Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Cynthia Nixon,Nominations
• Tony Award for Best Play
• Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
• Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
• Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play

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