Killer Joe

By Tracy Letts

The first play by Tracy Letts, who went on to win the 2008 Pulitzer Prize (for August: Osage County), is set in a Texas trailer park. When hit man Joe Cooper is hired by the dissolute Smith family to murder the matriarch for insurance money, he takes the family’s innocent daughter as a retainer against his final payoff, which sets in motion a bloody aftermath as the “hit man” meets his match.