Fwd: KILLER JOE by TRACY LETTS @ THE NITERY --- ADMISSION $5

[David Lowenfels]

Anyone wanna go with me?

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Sylvanus Alexander <edisk@stanford.edu>
> Date: Thu May 29, 2003  5:01:44  PM US/Pacific
> To: edisk@stanford.edu
> Subject: OPENING TONITE: KILLER JOE by TRACY LETTS @ THE NITERY --- 
> ADMISSION $5
>
> 	The Stanford University Department of Drama cordially invites you to 
> see
>
> 	K	I	L	L	E	R   	J O E
>
> 			Written by Tracy Letts
> 				Directed by Jonathan C. Kaplan
>
> 	~ starring ~
> 		Alexis Boozer
> 			Brett Erlich
> 				Anne Gregory
> 					Justin McBaine
> 						~ and ~ Tim Youker
>
> 		Showtimes:
> 		Thursday, May 29th and Friday, May 30th @ 8 PM
> 		Saturday, May 31st @ 7 PM and 11 PM
> 		Venue:
> 		The Nitery Theatre @ Old Union Courtyard
>
> 		Tix only available at the door for $5
>
> 		"A normal person is just someone you don't know real
> 		well." -- Tracy Letts
>
> ~ Caution ~  This show contains nudity, sexual content, and violence, 
> and
> is decidedly NOT for children.
>
> "Killer Joe" is the joint senior thesis project of Jonathan C. Kaplan,
> Anne Gregory and Justin McBaine.
>
> ~ About the Play ~
>
> In this dark comedy set in a Texas trailer park, Chris Smith realizes 
> that
> his mother has stolen six thousand dollars worth of cocaine from him. 
> In
> retaliation, Chris and his father, Ansel, hire corrupt detective 
> Killer Joe
> Cooper to have her killed - before thinking about the high cost of
> murder-for-hire.
>
> Nothin's worse than regrets...
>
> ~ About the Author ~
>
> Tracy Letts was born and raised in Oklahoma.  His first play, "Killer
> Joe," premiered in Chicago in1993.  The original Chicago production
> transferred to the Traverse Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 
> (where it
> won a Fringe First Award), London's Bush Theatre, and the Vaudeville
> Theatre in the West End.  "Killer Joe" has since been performed in ten
> countries in over a dozen languages.  His second play, "Bug," 
> premiered in
> London in 1996.  Mr. Letts is also an actor and has appeared in 
> theatrical
> productions in the U.S. and abroad, as well as numerous film and
> television appearances.
>
> ~ Past Reviews ~
>
> " . . . trailer-trash that even embarrass other trailer trash . . . we 
> are
> witness to one of the most erotic moments on stage I have ever seen . 
> . .
> I had the sense of being in the middle of a bizarre Joe Orton play." -
> Barbara K. Melman, 'Killer Joe Revisited'
>
> "It all starts with the playwright, Tracy Letts, who has provided an
> honest script that is at once clever, scrupulously written, 
> suspenseful,
> subtle, complex, deep and riveting . . . In a time when many so-called
> major playwrights are producing anemic works of little enduring 
> interest,
> this phenomenon should serve as a source of optimism." - Les Gutman,
> 'Killer Joe'
>
> "Playwright Tracy Letts's sharp-tongued, decidedly unpoetic voice fuses
> chilling brutality with slapstick comedy in this funny-as-shit 
> indictment
> of the American Way . . . the playwright reveals fresh, provocative,
> riveting glimpses of pain, desperation, and lust that permeate American
> squalor." - Jonathan Padget, 'Joe Cool'
>
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