ITSAZOO Productions presents the grisly, pitch-black comedy Killer Joe from April 15 to May 4, 2014 at the Italian Cultural Centre Parking Lot. Directed by Chelsea Haberlin, this 'trailer-trash noir' is penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) and follows a deeply dysfunctional Texas family who engage a contract killer in a scheme to collect life insurance. The site-specific production places the action in a purpose-built trailer park, giving audiences immersive, intimate proximity to the homicidal kinfolk.
"Killer Joe is theatre for the Tarantino and HBO crowd; a bloody, sexy, brilliant piece of work with something to say," says Chelsea Haberlin, Killer Joe director and ITSAZOO Co-Artistic Director. "There are definitely shock factors - nudity, simulated sex, violence - but they are applied in an incisive way to create a dialogue about moral righteousness, ambiguity, and the depravity that poverty can necessitate. We can't wait to welcome artistic risk-takers to our trailers."
The action plays out before an intimate audience of 30 in a trailer-home belonging to the Smith family. The eldest son Chris embroils his kin in a plot to kill his mother and collect her life insurance policy. They hire cop-by-day/hitman-by-night Killer Joe Cooper to carry out of the dirty deed. But when Killer Joe takes an interest in Chris' virginal younger sister Dottie, all hell breaks loose.Videos