“A funny, surprising and moving search for
connection in modern America.” After five years in prison,
Andy returns to her small, economically depressed hometown to restart her life;
her only job option is on the kill floor of the local slaughterhouse. Her
choice to take the job brings her to a clearer understanding of class, race,
and status, on the job and in her everyday social interactions, and complicates
her efforts to reunite with her teenage son, a vegan with a budding political
awareness, who faces his own sometimes parallel challenges within the
exploitative system in which we live, love, and die.
Kill
Floor won the 2014 L. Arnold Weissberger
Award of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It received its world premiere at
NYC’s LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in October 2015 and played at American
Theatre Company, Chicago, from March 2016.
We need your help! Space, set materials, insurance, and more all costs money, and so we’ve started a GoFundMe campaign to support our upcoming production of Abe Koogler’s amazing play, Kill Floor, in Jersey City, at Art House Productions‘ FlexBox Theater, on March 22, 23, and 24 (note changed dates!). Go fund us — any amount is appreciated!
We did it! The dramatic, staged reading of Trojan Women on August 30, 7pm, at the Montclair Public Library, was well attended and warmly received by about 40 library-goers. Many thanks to Molly Hone and Jill DeMarco, of the Montclair Public Library, who attended to all our dramatic needs!
Special thanks and applause go to Jack Waller (Talthybius), who stepped up at the eleventh hour to swoop in with a sophisticated and sensitive reading of that key figure, the Greek military herald caught between pity and duty at the end of the Trojan War.
Free public dramatic reading! Euripides’ Trojan Women
Andromache & Hector during the Trojan War
Coming up on August 30th, 7-8:30pm, at the Montclair Public Library Auditorium, we’ll be performing a dramatic reading of Euripides’ Trojan Women (translation by Richmond Lattimore). Free & open to public.
The Greek tragic playwright Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) wrote this play in 415 BCE, in the midst of the Peloponnesian War.