Past Shows
A Murder of Crows
"Jessica
Jackson gives a surprisingly soulful performance as a haunted prophet
of doom....Niftily choreographed by Rebecca Salzer."
— Steven Winn, S.F. Chronicle
"What makes this Crowded Fire production
work so well is Kevin E. Humbert's spot-on direction, which perfectly
sets the tone of gleeful bleakness and never drops the ball."
— S.F. Bay Guardian
"The production skewers American 'values'
with intelligence and sadistic humor."
— Karen McKevitt, SFGate.com
"As
bleak as the themes were in A Murder of Crows, I found myself laughing,
and was completely engaged by this play."
— Suzi Levi-Sanchez, SFStation.com
A Murder of Crows
by Mac Wellman
directed by Kevin E. Humbert
played
October – November
2000 at the Exit Stage Left in San Francisco.
The Bush ads playing all over the Midwest proclaimed that the nation had a values deficit. Hip, radical New York language trickster Mac Wellman finds himself in reluctant agreement with the Republicans on this topic. In his hilarious, dark satire A Murder of Crows he puts the American heartland on trial and sentences it to death. In San Francisco, where everyone is from somewhere else, the twisted characters in this play, fleeing from a toxic past they can't quite succeed in hiding, should seem eerily familiar.
Featuring: Jessica Jackson, Noah Kelly, John Polak, Rebecca
Salzer, Mason Waller, Janet Weeks, Frances Ward White, Wendy Wilcox,
Kathryn Wood
Choreographer: Rebecca Salzer
Scenic Design: Mellie Katakalos
Costume Design: Jocelyn Leiser
Lighting Design: Jason Ries
Sound Design: Grant Huberty
Stage Manager: Gabriel Caffrey