- By Arlene Winnick
- Photo Courtesy of Geffen Playhouse
Skelton Crew, the much anticipated final play in Dominique Morisseau’s trilogy ‘The Detroit Project” has arrived and it was worth the wait. Just ask The New York Times who hailed it as “squarely in the tradition of Arthur Miller. A deeply moral and deeply American play” or The San Diego Union Tribune who called it “Fierce and funny!”
Set in 2008 at the start of the Great Recession, we follow – Faye, Dez, Reggie and Shanita – blue collar co-workers at one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit where the business is on shaking ground. The long hours and demanding shifts have turned the line workers into a family of sorts and we soon discover the hard choices each must make in order to secure their individual survival as their loyalty and self-preservation are tested.
Shanita (Kelly McCreay from Grey’s Anatomy) needs to support herself and her unborn child; Faye (Caroline Stefanie Clay fresh from Broadway’s The Little Foxes) just months away from retiring must decide where she’ll live; Dez (Amari Cheatom from the recent movie Roman J. Israel, Esq.) wants to make his big dreams a reality; and Reggie (D.B. Woodside from TV’s hit show Lucifer) is the manager caught between his work family and corporate red tape.
Morisseau has received numerous playwriting awards including the esteemed Edward. M. Kennedy Prize for Drama and the 2014 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize Award for Skeleton Crew.
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