A Steady Rain: A Play

By Keith Huff

Joey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny's wife and kids; Denny keeps Joey away from the bottle. But when a domestic disturbance call takes a turn for the worse, their friendship is put on the line. The result is a difficult journey into a moral gray area where trust and loyalty struggle for survival against a sobering backdrop of pimps, prostitutes, and criminal lowlifes.

A dark duologue filled with sharp storytelling and biting repartee, A Steady Rain explores the complexities of a lifelong bond tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Aug 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781429995955

Keith Huff

KEITH HUFF is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and the author of numerous plays that have been produced off Broadway, internationally, and nationally. He lives in Chicago.

Book preview

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Lights rise on DENNY and JOEY.

DENNY We just signed on as a Nielsen family, yunno, the ratings guys? They come into your home and attach this, the fuck, this box to your TV. And when you watch, all you do you pass around this remote and whoever’s watching what, they punch in they’re watching, right? They hooked a box up to the TV in Noel’s room. There’s even one buttoned up to the black-and-white kitchen set and the 38-inch boober me and Connie got in the boudoir. So the first night we got it, Connie and the kids and me, we’re lounging around in the family room figuring out how we can push all these buttons at once. Yunno, really screw up the Nielsen guys? And my partner, Joey, he’s over, I explain to him what’s the deal. And he tells

Reviews for A Steady Rain

[jburlinson_3 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This should be required reading for anyone considering a career in law enforcement. Two cops, friends since childhood, go through a doozy of a bad patch together: kind of like two guys thrown out of an airplane with only one parachute between them.