Coming to Springfield Contemporary Theatre Center Stage at Wilhoit Plaza: Killer Joe by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tracy Letts, directed by Melanie Dreyer-Lude, April 22nd through May 7. Killer Joe is described by SCT as "a Southern American gothic crime thriller set in a West Dallas trailer park"--but director Melanie Dreyer-Lude (Assistant Professor of Theatre Performance at Missouri State University) assures me the show is "funny, with lots of opportunities for laughter," despite the dark-sounding storyline. Chris, a bungling young drug dealer desperate to repay some loan sharks, ropes his father into a plot to hire a contract killer (named "Killer Joe") to knock off his mother in order to get the sizable insurance payout. However, things go disastrously awry as Killer Joe demands Chris’ younger sister Dottie as his 'retainer’ until the payment for his services comes through. Killer Joe is played by Chris Brown, Artist-in-Residence in the MSU Theatre and Dance Department and
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