2002-03 Season 1

Slaughter City

by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore

Feb 15 - Mar 15, 2003

A wild drama laced with real life struggles of sexism and sexuality, racism and worker’s rights. Mixing reality and dream, the radical and the mystic, Slaughter City is a searing story of everyday life in the meat-packing industry. Set somewhere in Midwestern America, tensions are growing to a boil among the workers and bosses, whites and blacks, and men and women. All it takes is the arrival of a stranger to set everything on fire and to reawaken that beast we call hope.

Cast

Barry Abrams
Tim Carlin
Aubrey Deeker
Liz Duck
Jay Dunn
James Foster
Jennifer Mendenhall

Production Team

Director  Jeremy Skidmore
Fight Choreographer  Diane Cooper-Gould
Stage Manager  Bridgette O’Leary
Scenic and Properties Designer  Tony Cisek
Lighting Designer  Dan Covey
Costume Designer  Kate Turner-Walker
Sound Designer  Peter Finnegan
Dramaturg  Cam McGee

Press

What They Say

“They will find something profoundly affecting in the anguished face and flat, defeated eyes of Jennifer Mendenhall’s deeply damaged character, something seductively graceful about Aubrey Deeker’s Cod, something simultaneously sinister and avuncular in the way Barry Abrams plays Deeker’s foil, the Sausage Man.”

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Washington Citypaper

2004 Helen Hayes Awards

Nominee

  • Scenic Design
  • Lighting Design

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