The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights – Park Theatre, London

The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights – Park Theatre, London

Writer: Hannah Doran Director: George Turvey Tensions in the back room of a butcher’s run high in The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights. Billy (Ash Hunter) and JD (Marcello Cruz) are both facing a cut test, but with sales falling, Paula (Jackie Clune) can only afford to keep one of them on. The constant action of the work keeps things vibrant in [...] The post The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights – Park Theatre, London appeared first …

The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights

Hannah Doran‘s debut play and 2024 Papatango New Writing Prize-winning production of The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights invites us to experience the savage pursuit of the American Dream at almost any cost.We are placed firmly in the modern-day meat-cutting room of a struggling century-old butcher shop, Caferelli & Sons, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, and the play centres around the five staff members working there who are strugglin…

THE MEAT KINGS! (INC.) OF BROOKLYN HEIGHTS review

THE MEAT KINGS! (INC.) OF BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Park Theatre ★★★★ “Director George Turvey keeps the play dynamic and ever surprising” Hannah Doran’s feisty new play The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights beat 1,588 competitors to win Papatango’s 2024 New Writing Prize and you can see why. A love story, workplace rivalries, second chances, deceit and high stakes (if you’ll indulge the pun) are all coursing through the cutting room of a family-run…