Coal Mine Theatre to Present KILLER JOE, 4/3-24

Coal Mine Theatre presents the Toronto premiere of the in-your-face balls-to-the-wall black comedy, KILLER JOE, written by American playwright Tracy Letts and directed by Peter Pasyk (13/14 Urjo Kareda Artist-in-Residence), from April 3-24, 2016 at the Coal Mine Theatre.

In KILLER JOE, a twisted trailer park tragedy, drug debts have left Chris Smith in desperate need of a lot of money -- fast. Chris enlists his father, his sister and his shifty stepmother in the procurement of a hitman so he can 'off' his alcoholic mother and collect the insurance money.
A deep-fried Southern gothic tale, KILLER JOE is crafted to exploit the sensory immediacy a stage production allows.

KILLER JOE is the brutal and shocking first play from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County, Bug) who is known for his unflinching portrayals of human cruelty.

Directed by Peter Pasyk (Late Company/The Theatre Centre, Dying City/Surface/Underground Theatre); the cast features Matthew Gouveia (Edmond/Storefront Theatre, Who Killed Snow White?/Nightwood Theatre) as Chris Smith; Madison Walsh (A Spirit's Face/Native Earth Performing Arts, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) as his stepmother Sharla; Paul Fauteux (Richard III, Titus Andronicus/Stratford Festival, Afghanada/CBC Radio) as his father Ansel; Vivian Endicott-Douglas (Harper Regan/Canadian Stage, A Boy Called Newfoundland/Theatre Smash) as his sister Dottie; and Matthew Edison (An Enemy Of The People/Tarragon Theatre, A Christmas Carol/Soulpepper) as Killer Joe Cooper.

First produced by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 1993, KILLER JOE has received multiple productions across the United States, in London and Edinburgh, and had its Canadian premiere in Vancouver in 2014. In 2012 William Friedkin (The Exorcist) directed Killer Joe the feature film, adapted by Letts, starring Matthew McConaughey. Love, lust and murder Texas style; KILLER JOE mines the dark depths of family relations and what passes for humanity in America today.

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