Killers and Other Family
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 24, 2009
Closed Oct 17, 2009
Opened Sep 24, 2009
Closed Oct 17, 2009
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Running Time:
1hr. 25min.
1hr. 25min.
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Just when Elizabeth thinks she has finally escaped her previous life, that life comes crashing back in when her brother and his best friend show up, on the run, demanding she hide them. Their arrival forces Elizabeth to truly confront her past, pushing her into a walking nightmare in which fears and memories become all too real.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater opens its 15th anniversary season with a fresh look at Killers and Other Family, the provocative play by Lucy Thurber which had its world premiere as part of the company's 2000-01 season. Caitriona McLaughlin directs.
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The old saying "You can't go home again," makes no mention of one's childhood past knocking on the door, but that's exactly what happens in Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family, which is receiving an uneven but consistently riveting revival at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
Lizzie (Samantha Soule), just two weeks away from completing her Ph.D. dissertation, has established a comfortable life for herself in Manhattan, miles away from the sordid- sounding, lower class world in rural Massachusetts in which she grew up. All of her achievements start to vanish, however, as soon as her brother Jeff (Dashiell Eaves) and her childhood friend Danny (Shane McRae) show up unexpectedly in the a[...]