by Naomi Wallace

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Nominated for 5 Austin Critics Circle Awards, including Best Play (Drama), Best Direction, and Best Movement


"Slaughter City, by Naomi Wallace, is a play of ideas and under Corey Atkins' direction...it is also one with a heart. [...] A strong ensemble conveys the tedium and danger of assembly line repetition with mime and dance that recalls 'Stomp.' The fact that the spectacle is genuinely entertaining by itself makes the dance all the more unsettling in the context. We're stuck watching the workers' circus from the boss' seat. Filling a production with thought, feeling and spectacle is  hard task. Slaughter  is up to it."
- Austin American-Statesman 

"Though the cast only numbers 12, director Corey Atkins stages the scenes so as to imply a huge crowd of actors stomping about, and as the set changes occur, the actors march, chant, sharpen knives, and pound things on the floor – I cannot recall ever seeing a production in which the scene changes are as stimulating as the ones you'll see here. [...] Only rarely have I seen a play or production with as much of a social conscience."
- Austin Chronicle

SET Sarah Rae Davidson
LIGHTS Katie Hallee 
COSTUMES Kimberley Beverett
SOUND Billy Henry
MOVEMENT Corey Atkins
PHOTOS Amitava Sarkar