SLAUGHTER CITY
by Naomi Wallace
American Premiere
A.R.T. New Stages at the
Hasty Pudding Theatre
March 28 - April 28, 1996
in repertory with Alice in Bed
directed by Ron Daniels
set and costumes by
Ashley Martin-Davis
lighting by John Ambrosone
sound by Christopher Walker
In photo from left: Jay Boyer, Starla Benford, S.J. Scruggs
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STARLA BENFORD
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. . . Roach, an African American worker in her mid-thirties
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JUDITH HAWKING
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. . . Maggot, a white worker in her mid-thirties
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JAY BOYER
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. . . Brandon, a white worker in his early twenties
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S.J. SCRUGGS
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. . . Cod, a white worker of Irish descent, mid-thirties
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TERRY ALEXANDER
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. . . Tuck, an African American, mid-forties
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PHOEBE JONAS
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. . . Textile Worker, a women in her twenties
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ALVIN EPSTEIN
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. . . Sausage Link Man, a white man, somewhat elderly
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REMO AIRALDI
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. . . Mr. Baquin, a white company manager in his fifties
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Mixing reality and dream, the radical and the mystic, Slaughter City is a searing drama about life in
the meat-packing industry. Kentucky poet Naomi Wallace has written a passionate protest
against labor exploitation also takes on issues of race, gender, and the interaction
of past and present. Slaughter City is full of poetry, humor, unusual
characters and surprising turns of plot.
Ron Daniels directed the world premiere of Slaughter
City for the Royal Shakespeare
Company, opening with a British cast on January 17, 1996 at The Pit in London.
The London Guardian said "The play has passion, poetry, and a wild strangeness.
Ron Daniels' production is astonishingly successful."
Reviewing Mr. Daniels' A.R.T. New Stages version (with the American cast
listed here) the Boston Phoenix said "Docudrama meets surrealism in
Slaughter City, Naomi
Wallace's literally and figuratively gutsy new play" (4/4/96), and the
Boston Globe said "The
A.R.T. cast of eight... puts on as fine a job of ensemble acting as
any in memory at the Hasty Pudding or the Loeb main stage."
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