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The Velvet Rut
The Velvet Rut
"When our world falls apart and our defenses collapse and we have just enough will to resist committing suicide, then a new perception of reality may usher its way into our life in a way we never would have imagined. That perception is what playwright James Still has captured uncannily in his luminescent play, The Velvet Rut." —Star Tribune/Daily Variety

"The Velvet Rut sometimes feels like a Twilight Zone echo of Dante's The Divine Comedy (in which the Roman poet Virgil acts as a guide to hell and purgatory). But in James Still's play, it's a Boy Scout named Virgil rather than a dead poet who helps Mr. Smith recover his will to live in the aftermath of nightmarish violence on Earth. The Velvet Rut works to derail ordinary trains of thought, prodding us out of comfort by raising questions that are more exciting than the easy answers many plays provide." —St. Paul Pioneer Press
Drama. By James Still.

Cast: 2m. Mr. Smith is a high-school English teacher who used to know this for sure: he loves his students, his wife and his poetry. When a single event unravels his world and sends him free-falling into a crisis of faith, a Boy Scout named Virgil mysteriously arrives to take him on a soul-searching trek through a haunted wilderness that begins in an empty church, continues to a camp out in the woods, and ends on a front porch with a red door. Area staging. Approximate running time: 85 minutes.

Play details
Status:  (Subject to Restriction)
Type of show:  Full-Length
Catalog Code:  V38
Cast Size:  2
No. of Act(s):  1
Pages:  71
Royalty:  $75.00 /perf.*
Cost:  $8.95
Approx. Running Time:  85 min.
Categories
Target Audience: High School | College and Adult
Performing Group: College Theatre | Senior Theatre | Community Theatre | Stock & Lort
Genre: Drama
ISBN (10): 1583426949
Biographies
James Still's award-winning plays have been produced at theatres throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China and Australia. He is the playwright-in-residence at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, artistic affiliate with American Blues in Chicago, a winner of the William Inge Festival's Otis Guernsey New Voices in American Theatre Award, the Medallion for Sustained Achievement from the Children's Theatre Foundation ...More
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This title can be licensed/sold throughout the world
* Please note that royalties quoted in our catalog are intended for K-12 schools with a standard curriculum only. All other producing groups must submit a completed application.


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