10/11 Season
KILLER JOE
Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Sean C. Murphy
"Set in Dallas, Killer Joe revels in its white trash stereotypes, and gives you permission to do the same; it's pulp fiction which has it both ways, deriving humor from dirty realism. It's slick, it's well constructed, it knows exactly where it's going." New York Daily News
This exciting first play by the author of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf before going on to acclaimed productions in London and New York. Hired by the dissolute Smith family to murder the matriarch for insurance money, "Killer Joe" takes the daughter to bed as a retainer against his final payoff. Don’t miss this trailer trash black comedy that was the Off-Broadway smash mega-hit!
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| Location: | Historic Hoover Theater 1635 Park Avenue San José , CA 95126 All performances begin at 8pm except Sunday. Sunday performances begin at 7pm. |
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all this intimacy
West Coast PREMIERE
Written by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Caitlin McGarty
Ty Greene is a normal guy with three very big problems. In an unprecedented (for him) run of promiscuity, Ty has managed to impregnate three women in the span of one week: His ex-girlfriend, his 40-something married next-door neighbor, and his 18 year-old student. In this edgy comedy by playwright Rajiv Joseph, Ty’s problems illuminate every triumph and failure of his life, and as the women in his world converge and figure out what’s happened, Ty realizes that his life is adrift, and that he only has a limited time to try to piece it back together. All This Intimacy, which according to The New York Times has “a certain can’t-look-away pull,” is a comedy about friendship and lust and how the two don’t mix.
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Ouroboros
Regional PREMIERE
Written by Tom Jacobson
Directed by Virginia Drake
This palindrome play follows two unrelated American couples, visiting five Italian cities, who are trapped in a hellish collision of fate as each travels through time in the opposite directions. OUROBOROS is truly a great theatrical experiment since the play is performed one night in sequential order to end as a comedy and is performed the next night in reverse to end as a tragedy.
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