Dominique Morisseau’s play set in a Detroit car factory features four outstanding performances
Some plays land like instant classics. Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew is one such. First staged in the US in 2016 and now receiving its UK premiere in a fabulous production by Matthew Xia, it is a funny, humane, deeply moving drama — not so much state-of-the-nation as state-of-the-world. Set in Detroit in 2008, as the fallout from the financial crash is hitting hard, Morisseau’s play never preaches politics and never budges from the staff breakroom of an automobile factory .
And each has a moving speech that expresses the excruciating dilemmas faced by ordinary people because of circumstances way beyond their control. Above them grinds the machinery of the plant and beyond that the unseen machinery of the vast financial and geopolitical shifts that threaten to close the factory down. That threat bubbles under the play, impacting each worker differently, while a spate of thefts puts everyone on edge.
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