Slaughter City
Feb 15 - Mar 15, 2003
by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore
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.
Press
“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.”
Washington City Paper: SLAUGHTER CITY (review)
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Cast and production
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
