A Searing Exploration Of The Human Condition
Praised for its poetic and political examination of the plight of the working class in Detroit, Award-winning American playwright Dominque Morrisseau's Skeleton Crew won much critical praise during its Off-Broadway debut in 2016. Through the lens of the 2008 recession, Morrisseau offers up an intimate portrait of the humans beyond the statistics, their hopes, dreams and glorious complexities. The poignant four-character drama comes to Houston's Alley Theatre for a strictly limited run this fall as part of their groundbreaking 2018/19 season programming.
Set during the initial aftermath of the great financial collapse, Skeleton Crew opens in the break room of one of The Motor City's last auto stamping plants, where co-workers have become a patchwork family. Lyrical monologues and resonant imagery of crumbling ghost factories, lungs and rhythmic breathing paint a naturalistic yet somehow abstract scene as these forgotten workers swap stories, interact and confront life-altering decisions that are seemingly not theirs to make.