Killer Joe Tickets

It's great to welcome Orlando Bloom to the British stage, the star of mega-movies Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings and more. This blackly funny play is based on Tracy Letts' excellent thriller. Welcome to the crazy world of Killer Joe, policeman by day and hired killer in his spare time, and Bloom is ideal for the role.

Directed to perfection by the talented Simon Evans, who absolutely smashed The Dazzle and Bug at Found111 and The Best Man, the play takes a look at the life of the Smith family, who would dearly love to see their estranged mother die so they can claim her life insurance. They eventually pay Joe Cooper, detective and occasional assassin, to to do the job. He's more than happy to oblige until he meets their sweetly innocent daughter Dottie while visiting the family's trailer home, an event that sends his plans flying out of the window.

Tense doesn't cover it. This play is super-tense, ultimately asking us to think very carefully about the fight for survival and the moral lines humans draw in the sand during it.

As Bloom himself told What's on Stage magazine, “Tracy Lett's Killer Joe is an incredible, adrenaline-fuelled piece of writing, with a dark and gritty character to play. It's an interesting comment on a disenfranchised view of the American dream... It's very different from many of the film roles I'm most recognized for. The play may be 25 years-old this year, but the relationships it portrays, especially between Joe and the innocent girl Dottie, speak so brilliantly to the empowerment we're seeing around the world in 2018.”

Killer Joe takes to the stage for a strictly limited season of 13 weeks, opening its doors on Friday 18th May and ending its run on Saturday 18th August. Your venue is Trafalgar Studio 1.

Who is this show for?
Because it contains adult themes, this brilliant play is suitable for people aged 16 or over.