Killer Joe
by Tracy Letts

Killer Joe Book Cover
Killer Joe Cover

Synopsis

Full Length, Black ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 2 female Interior SetThis 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 which sets in motion a bloody aftermath as the "hit man" meets his match.

"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

Themes

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 5 total roles, 2 female and 3 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1999
ISBN 10
0573627363
ISBN 13
9780573627361
Binding
Paperback
Edition
59591st
Print Length
78 pages
Place Published
New York
Language
English
LCC
PS3612.E887 K55 1999
Print
Killer Joe is a American play written by and published by Samuel French in New York, 1999. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573627361 and an ISBN-10 of 0573627363.
Digital
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