The Butcher of Baraboo
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Opened Jun 11, 2007
Closed Jun 30, 2007
Opened Jun 11, 2007
Closed Jun 30, 2007
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Two-time Tony award winner Judith Ivey directs the world premiere comedy The Butcher of Baraboo, written by Marisa Wegrzyn.
Valerie is the butcher of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Her husband has gone missing and everyone suspects she played a hand, especially her nosy sister-in-law who just happens to be the town sheriff. And her daughter, a drug-pushing pharmacist, might know more than she lets on. The Butcher of Baraboo is a black comedy about a butcher, a secret, and one perfectly polished meat cleaver.
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You can't say that Marisa Wegrzyn's play,
The Butcher of Baraboo, which opens Second Stage's Uptown summer season, is unlike anything you've ever seen before. From its first grimly funny opening moments, there are glimmers of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart, Ethan and Joel Coen's Fargo, and Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies. The play's report on macabre yet unexpectedly hilarious activities among small-town working-class citizens has been glimpsed before; still, the play is a delightful instance of someone expressing observations made by others in her own idiosyncratic and compelling voice.
Wegrzyn surely has an already sharpened knack at trotting out lively characters primed to clash wit[...]