Alex Reeves, Alex De Bard, and Mary Myers in ‘The Velveteen Rabbit.’ Photo by Sarah Straub, in Adventure Theatre's production.
Production Notes:
Character List
The Rabbit: velveteen
The Child: young but getting older
Nana: a cranky (but loving) Geordie
Wind-Up Mouse: troublesome, Scouse Dinosaur: cheeky Cockney
Model Boat: fancies himself something
The Skin Horse: Real. Timothy, the Jointed Wooden Lion: should know better
The Sheriff of Nottingham: a villain
The Sheriff’s Men: his not-so-merry men
The Jabberwocky: terrifying
Shakespeare and Mozart: library busts
Oxford Bunny and Cambridge Bunny: Oryctolagus cuniculus, AKA: “coney” rabbits, AKA: The Oxbridge Bunnies
Doctor: a doctor. Actors not playing The Rabbit or The Child are referred to collectively as The Ensemble. Character pronouns can be changed by the producer to suit the performer.
Run Time:
1 hour
Setting:
Inside and the grounds surrounding a Victorian country house.
Time
Interwar Britain (1918–1939)
The Velveteen Rabbit was commissioned and originally presented by Adventure Theatre MTC of Glen Echo, MD (Chil Kong, artistic director) in November, 2019.