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Skeleton Crew

  • Dominique Morisseau
  • Full Length Play, Drama, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573705168

Powerful and tense, Skeleton Crew is the third of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle trilogy.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Smoking, Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support herself and her unborn child, Faye has to decide how and where she'll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dream a reality.

Power dynamics shift as their manager Reggie is torn between doing right by his work family, and by the red tape in his office. Powerful and tense, Skeleton Crew is the third of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle trilogy.
REVIEWS:

"Clifford Odetts' dramas come to mind and so does the great Pittsburgh cycle of August Wilson. But Skeleton Crew is squarely in the tradition of Arthur Miller... A deeply moral and deeply American play."

 The New York Times

"Morisseau has heart... Her rough-edged dialogue even has the heart of a street poet."

 Variety

"Like Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson before her, Morisseau creates characters who don't merely speak, they sing with the vernacular of their community. Rarely has dialogue ever felt so much like eavesdropping on an actual conversation."

 TheatreMania

"Unquestionably a strong, formidable work... Theatregoers won't want to miss."

 Huffington Post

Premiere Production: Skeleton Crew premiered at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City in January 2016 under the direction of Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F

  • FAYE - Black woman, mid-late 50's, working class woman. Tough and a lifetime of dirt beneath her nails. Somewhere, deep compassion.

  • DEZ - Black man, mid-late 20's, working class man. Young hustler, playful, street-savy, and flirtatious... Somewhere, deeply sensitive.

  • SHANITA - Black woman, mid-late 20's, working class young woman. Pretty but not ruled by it. Hard-working. By-the-books. Believes in the work she does. Also, pregnant. Somewhere, a beautiful dreamer.

  • REGGIE - Black man, late 30's. White collar man. Studious. Dedicated. Compassionate. The Foreman. Somewhere, a fire brims.

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    At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support herself and her unborn child,Faye has to decide how and where she'll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dream a reality. Power dynamics shift as their manager Reggie is torn between doing right by his work family, and by the red tape in his office. Powerful and tense, Skeleton Crew is the third of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle trilogy.

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