Son of Semele Ensemble presents

SLAUGHTER CITY

by Naomi Wallace
directed by Barbara Kallir

 

SON OF SEMELE ENSEMBLE PRESENTS
THE LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF
"SLAUGHTER CITY" BY NAOMI WALLACE

Los Angeles, CA: Award-winning theatre company Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE) is presenting the Los Angeles premiere of SLAUGHTER CITY by Naomi Wallace, a political fairytale about race, gender and class. SLAUGHTER CITy will run at Son of Semele Theater in Silver Lake from February 19th to March 21st 2010.

Set in a rural meat factory where management is trying to break the union, SLAUGHTER CITY explores the struggle to remain human in a mechanized, profit-driven culture. The play examines the interpersonal relationships between labor and management, as it focuses on the lives of four workers struggling to earn a living under hellish conditions. Roach and Maggot are childhood best friends, who have worked in the slaughterhouse their entire adult lives. Brandon is a smooth-talking kid who is quickly working his way up the factory ladder, and Cod is a relative new-comer, a non-union worker whom the others resent for crossing their pickets. Alliances shift when Maggot falls in love with Cod, and the labor situation heats up to the boiling point.

SLAUGHTER CITY was awarded the 1995 Mobil Prize and received its world premiere in January 1996 at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1999, Wallace received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

The production is directed by Barbara Kallir, with set design by Sarah Krainin, sound design by 2009 Ovation Award-nominee Joseph “Sloe“ Slawinski, costumes by Laura Wong, lighting by Barbara Kallir and Jonathan Williams, original music by Andrew Ingkavet, fight choreography by Edgar Landa and musical direction by Matthew McCray. The production stage manager is Flor San Roman and with production management by Ashley Steed. The cast of SLAUGHER CITY includes William Lewis Baker, Sarah Boughton, Elizabeth Clemmons, Christopher Emerson, Noelle Messier, Christina Ogunade, Bart Petty and LA Weekly Award-winner Alexander Wells.

at Son of Semele Theater
3301 Beverly Blvd 
Los Angeles, CA 90004

Opening 02/19/2010	Closing 03/21/2010

Showtimes

Performances of SLAUGHTER CITY are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. from February 19th through March 21st. Monday night performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. on March 8th and 15th. There is no performance on Sunday, March 7th.

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$20, general
$10, purchased before opening

 

 

 

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