A part of our "Fighting Words" Play Reading Series

"Red Helen" by Jennifer Barclay

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A dark and twisted comedy about bloody money, blood-red meat, and blood relations. Red Helen dominates her home and three daughters with an unwavering clenched fist-- until all hell breaks loose at the family steak restaurant, and the status quo starts to slip.

If you liked MOXIE's "The Butcher of Baraboo", you'll like this play!

From playwright Jennifer Barclay:
My goal is to write stories which are full of raw, muscular humanity; stories which inspire and elevate, with juicy, scenery-chewing characters actors will die to gobble up. I make it a priority to create stereotype-busting roles for women; ones which I feel are infinitely more complicated than the standard leading lady or ingénue. I’m fascinated by the extremes of humanity, the dark & twisted, the psychologically unexpected, and the quirky underbelly. I write about both the intimacy of family and the magnitude of the world at large. And I believe that a play or a film at its best should be a challenge to the mind, a revelation for the heart, and a raw, joyful collision between human beings.

Note: This is a play READING--not a full scale production. Mature Audiences Only

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