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Killer Joe

November 1 - 24, 2024

ABOUT THE SHOW

A Texas-Sized, Deep-Fried Black Comedy 

A decade before August: Osage County won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, American playwright Tracy Letts made waves in theater circles with his debut play, Killer Joe at the Next Lab Theater in Chicago in 1993. Acclaimed productions of Lett’s darkly comic West Dallas thriller followed in London and New York. Killer Joe broadened its audience with the 2011 film adaptation starring Matthew McConaughey in the title role, and directed by five-time Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist). 

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Diabolical, riveting, and bizarre, Killer Joe is emblematic of nineties  theater and cinema when narrative conventions were being pushed to the fringes with grit, humor, and hyperrealism.

 

Beneath Killer Joe's “trailer park” facade is an elegant homage to the colorful characters, cynicism, and crime-plotting of classic film noir. 

Director: Chris Mertan
 

RUNNING TIME

This production runs approximately two hours with one intermission.​

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CONTENT ADVISORY

This show contains graphic scenes of violence, brutality, sex, and nudity. 

DISCOUNTS

$20 tickets, Pay-What-You-Will performances, discounts and more. Find the right ticket for you.

Meet the Cast

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Justin Callisch 

Chris Smith

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Mark Tillman

Joe Cooper

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Peter Hilton

Ansel Smith

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Caitlin Zinn 

Sharla Smith

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Kathryn Ludlam

Dottie Smith

COSTA MESA PLAYHOUSE

EST 1965

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