Playwright: Tracy Letts

Directed by: Milt Zoth

April 6-22, 2011

 

Starring: Larry Dell, Missy Miller, Jason Cannon*,James Slover and Rachel Fenton

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Adult Situations and Nudity

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In this, the first play of Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Tracy Letts, the Smith family, situated in a Texas trailer park, is finding itself on the verge of imminent destruction. When young Chris Smith’s creditors give him the ultimatum of paying them or dying, he and his father plot his mother’s murder to collect on her sizable life insurance policy. The arrival of Joe Cooper, the contract killer they hire, embroils the entire family in a sordid pact of lies, rape, violence and the betrayal of the most innocent member—daughter Dot. Not a play for the faint of heart, but consistently praised for its brilliant simplicity, Killer Joe will leave a mark.