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Killer Joe
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Killer Joe
BY TRACY LETTS
ROBERT QUINLAN, DIRECTOR

Thursday-Saturday, February 11-13, 2010, at 7:30pm; Wednesday-Saturday, February 17-20, 2010, at 7:30pm; Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 3pm | Studio Theatre

Department of Theatre Series | With bracing physicality and a droll casualness to horrific violence, the Smiths open the door of their trailer to Joe Cooper—police detective and part-time contract killer—in their not-so-cunning plan to make some easy money. Chris Smith is drowning in debt because of his drug habit and doesn’t need to convince his numbed-out father and trashy stepmother that the only way out of trouble is to have his mother killed for the insurance money. Of course, the family is too poor to pay a retainer, so the menacingly forceful Joe suggests that the sexual favors of innocent Dottie will do. Jarringly funny and brutal, the play unmasks the effects of droning television carnage and desperation on a Middle American family.

This play contains violence, sexual themes, nudity, and graphic language.