A Murder of Crows

By Mac Wellman
Directed by Rem Myers
March 8, 2015

Set in America’s Heartland in the wake of the Gulf War, A Murder Of Crows from Obie-winning playwright Mac Wellman satirizes a family struck down by the toxic winds of pollution. 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 family, Susannah finally follows her dead father’s advice and leaves to live with the crows. Exploring consumerism, post-traumatic stress disorder, patriotism, and the human condition, this scathing, apocalyptic comedy pinpoints the poisons in everyday life, mocking our hypocrisy about true and false heroics.

 

The Cutting Ball Theater’s 2015-16 season is made possible in part by Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The RHE Charitable Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The San Francisco Foundation, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Season Producers John and Paula Gambs, Ken Melrose, and Velia Melrose.