Karla
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 23, 2005
Closed Nov 13, 2005
Opened Oct 23, 2005
Closed Nov 13, 2005
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Running Time:
1hr. 20min.
1hr. 20min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Karla, a new play written by the legendary Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter, Steve Earle, is about Karla Faye Tucker, a woman who was sentenced to death and executed in 1998, for a double homicide. Karla was the first woman in Texas to receive the death penalty and have it carried out since the Civil War. The play concerns the events in her life leading up to the murder and her conversion to Christianity while serving time on Death Row. The cast of five includes Obie award winning actress, Jodie Markell as Karla. The play is directed by Bruce Kronenberg.
Box Office Hours: 2-8 daily
Group Sales Number (10+): 212-253-9983
Appropriate For Ages: 12 + above
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Karla, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Steve Earle's playwriting debut, focuses on the life, death, and afterlife of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War. Although Earle is publicly opposed to the death penalty, the play is not a simplistic diatribe against capital punishment. Unfortunately, neither is it very good.
The action of Karla begins with the convicted murderer's execution via lethal injection. Played by Jodie Markell, Karla finds herself in the afterlife, but it's not quite what she expected. She thought that maybe she'd see Jesus -- while in prison, she found religion after stealing a Bible following an evangelical puppet show -- b[...]