Capital T presents the Austin Premiere EXTENDED RUN of
Killer Joe by Tracy Letts Directed by Mark Pickell July 23-August 8 Thursday-Saturday at 8pm Hyde Park Theatre 511 W 43rd St. Autsin, Texas 78751 Tickets $15-$25 (Sliding Scale) www.capitalT.org or 479-PLAY
After a Sold out 4 week run Killer Joe is back with the same amazing script and the same killer cast that thrilled audiences at Hyde Park Theatre in June. This ain't 'Greater Tuna'-- Killer Joe is not coming back. You have 9 more chances to see what Austin critics have been raving about.
UPDATE:Back on stage July 23- August 8, Thursdays - Saturdays, 8 p.m.
I knew that this one was going to scare us to death. I didn't get there early in the run but I saw that the reviews were popping up in the media and on line.
My rule is not to read the reviews until after I've seen the production and written about it. My ticket was for last Thursday night.
Thursdays are often down-time for Austin theatre, but this show was packing 'em in. There's no standing room in the pinched quarters of the Hyde Park Theatre, so the staff might have been turning some folks away. Something was going on here, for sure.
Killer Joe.
I admired the production but I despised the script.
There's a perpetual tension in theatre programming between those who want theatre to keep people happy and those who want theatre to make people think. Hyde Park Theatre programming is typically 'way over to the "make 'em think" side of the scale. The needle bumps up from time to time to the region figuratively inscribed with the French slogan "épater les bourgeois," translated approximately as "scandalize the conventional citizens." Or, more crudely, "Knock their socks off!" Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
Killer Joe by Tracy Letts Directed by Mark Pickell June 4th-27thThursday-Saturday at 8pm Hyde Park Theatre511 W 43rd St. Austin, Texas 78751 Tickets $15-$25 (Sliding Scale) www.capitalT.org or 479-PLAY running time: 2 hours with one 15 minute intermission
Heads roll, shatter and blow in KILLER JOE, the savagely funny,pitch-dark comedy by Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright Tracy Letts(AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY).
The play focuses on the Smith family, a greedy, vindictive clan of trailer-trash Texans who hatch a plan to murder their estranged, naggy, alcoholic matriarch to cash in on her insurance policy. Unableto bring themselves to do the deed, they hire Killer Joe Cooper (Ken Bradley), a full-time cop and part-time contract killer. Once he stepsinto their trailer, their simple plan quickly spirals out of control.
Killer Joe has a killer cast including multiple B Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table Nominees and Winners Ken Bradley and Joey Hood as well as the talented chops of Katie DeBuys, Melissa Recalde, and JoeReynolds. The mix of these great actors and this dark script could be volatile.
