A Murder of Crows
by Mac Wellman
Directed by Jennifer Decker
Aug 28th – Sept 13th, 2008
Thursday - Saturday, 8pm
Monday Performances 9/1 & 9/8
Midtown Arts Center
3414 LaBranch St
Houston, TX 77004
Cast and Crew:
A Murder of Crows by Mac Wellman
Produced by Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company
Nella..... Karen Schlag
Susannah..... Christe Guidry Stryk
Howard.... Tom Vaughan
Georgia.... Amy Warren
Raymond.... Alan Hall
Andy.... Bobby Haworth
Crow #1.... Karina Montano Bowers
Crow #2.... Dana Pike
Crow #3.... Bobby Jo Bassett
Directed by... Jennifer Decker
Stage Manager... Blair Ault
Production Manager.... Carole Kelly
Set Design... Rebecca Ayers
Light Design... Robin Zeigler
Costume Design... Kelly Robertson
Sound Designer... Mike Switzer
Assistant Director... Mike Switzer
Tech Director.... Wayne Barnhill
Thursday through Friday, 8pm
August 28th - September 13th, 2008
Monday September 1st & 8th
Midtown Arts Center
3414 LaBranch St
Houston, TX 77004
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Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company presents the Houston Premiere of Mac Wellman’s A Murder of Crows, running August 28 – September 13, 2008 at the Midtown Arts Center. A Murder of Crows satirizes a family struck down by the toxic winds of pollution.
In a world where the air's “mustardy”, and the ocean is so polluted it looks like a bowl of custard, young Susannah reels from the death of her father, killed under a pile of radioactive chicken droppings. With her brother slowly turning into a statue in the garden and fed up with the rest of her greedy, vulgar family, Susannah finally follows her dead father's advice and leaves to live with the crows.
The Village Voice - "Eighty loopy minutes long, A Murder of Crows is containable in size, but joyously chaotic in substance, structure, story, and style; it's like opening a wristwatch box and finding one of Dali's melted jobs inside."
The Portland Mercury - “using language as beautiful and grotesque as the Old Testament, The Book of Mormon, and the works of L. Ron Hubbard, Wellman's stories, of course, take place in America, a place best suited for extremism and violent beauty.”
Time Out Chicago - “Wellman paint(s) the denizens of a Capra-like Midwestern hamlet as Goya-like grotesqueries who are just as complicit in America’s forthcoming fatted demise as they are victims of it… The playwright’s startling visual metaphors are resonant”
The Yale Herald - “Murder grabs hold of you from its opening lines, and very rarely gives you the opportunity to let go.”
This production features Mildred’s Umbrella company members Karen Schlag, Christine Guidry-Stryk, Amy Warren , Alan Hall and Tom Vaughan. It is directed by Mildred’s Umbrella co-founder Jennifer Decker.
3414 La Branch St
Houston, TX 77004
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