Theatre Memphis Opens A STEADY RAIN, 2/15

The MidSouth premier of A Steady Rain by Keith Huff will run at Theatre Memphis in the Next Stage February 15 - March 3, 2013. A gritty drama with epic consequences, the show follows two policemen who are best friends but who are very different and who must come to grips with what happens to them during the course of duty and the investigation that follows. Bearing the responsibility for their egregious failure to assess a situation accurately leads to a tragedy that threatens to rip them apart and destroy the boundaries of their relationship. The show features two actors, John Maness and John Moore, and is directed by Jerry Chipman.

According to Chipman, "This is gritty, gutsy, adult storytelling that doesn't pull punches." He continues," Not unlike some of the stories told in the Law and Order TV shows, perhaps especially the Law and Order: Special Victims Unit series, the play is a close up, personal look at men devastated by dealing with sometimes unspeakable acts of crime." Set in a bleak, urban cityscape full of crime and life-threatening occurrences, the play is in showing how the lives of those involved in law enforcement are affected and how those incidents can weigh heavily on their own personalities. Chipman takes on A Steady Rain having just directed Dangerous Liaisons on the Lohrey Stage in October of last year. Maness and Moore are not strangers to the Theatre Memphis stages either. Most recently Maness has performed in Hedda Gabler and Hamlet while Moore tackled major roles in Dangerous Liaisons and Glengarry Glen Ross.

"Theatre Memphis offers a wide range of entertainment to the community," says Theatre Memphis Executive Producer Debbie Litch. "We have the big popular musicals coming up this year like A Chorus Line and Singin' in the Rain and we have this dark, and honestly, very explicit play that deals with some graphic and adult subject matter. Art comes in so many forms and we are glad to have the chance to challenge our theatre and patron community with such variety."