"FIVE STARS! This is theater that throbs with life, and quickens the pulse and mind!"
Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
It’s the end of a long summer in Hurt Village, a housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. A government Hope Grant means relocation for many of the project’s residents, including Cookie, a thirteen year-old aspiring rapper, along with her mother Crank and great-grandmother Big Mama. As the family prepares to move, Cookie’s father Buggy unexpectedly returns from a tour of duty in Iraq. Ravaged by the war, Buggy struggles to find a position in his disintegrating community, along with a place in his daughter’s wounded heart.
A bold, gritty and devastating work, Hurt Village earned Katori Hall the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, given annually to an outstanding female playwright.
Hurt Village has received a 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award from TCG. For more information, click here.
RESIDENCY
Residency Five
IMAGE: Katori Hall. Photo by Gregory Costanzo.
Photo by Gregory Costanzo
IMAGE: The cast of Hurt Village. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Jookin'
Hurt Village: Jookin' in Rehearsal from Signature Theatre Company on Vimeo.
BRAND NEW PHOTOS FROM FIRST REHEARSAL!
IMAGE: Playwright Katori Hall. Photo by Erik Carter Photography.