Anyone who’s read Fast Food Nation or seen Food, Inc.—and if you haven’t, you’re just living in denial—knows that slaughterhouse workers have one of the most dangerous and exploitative jobs in the United States. Before either of those came out, MacArthur Fellowship– and Obie Award–winning playwright Naomi Wallace premiered Slaughter City with the Royal Shakespeare Company, depicting the lives of abattoir workers with a touch of magical realism. Doctoral candidate Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly directs a cast of student actors in this Cal performing arts department main stage production. Visit tdps.berkeley.edu.
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