by Will Kern
by Special Arrangements with Dramatists Play Service
Performed December 11-13, 1997
Performed in Wells Theater, Taylor Hall
Hellcab is a seventy-minute collection of scenes from a day in the life of a Chicago cabbie. Beginning with a 6:30 a.m. trip by a born-again couple…the cabbie's long day's journey proceeds with fares from, among many others, a dangerous trio of druggies, a piggish mini-capitalist, a benumbed rape victim, an argumentative pair of fellow cabbies, a drunken woman on welfare, a smug lawyer, a randy couple on the way to a motel, and two boisterous New Yorkers out on the town. Alternately frightening, hilarious and poignant, these sharply etched blackouts and cameos…are capped by a stunning and very touching final scene.
Cast:
Dominick Grillo
Kathie Wentworth
Grady Rose
Ruwan Perera
De Metra Gaston
Zachary West
Emily Carnahan
Stephanie Kansa
Amanda Thomas
Matt Summers
Adam Waite
Sue Hollinger
Jon Broadwell
Christie Bullard
Sheldon Harriott
Tina Wilcox
Lisa Jackson
Matthew Knotts
Director: Matthew Knotts
Assistant Director: Michael Lynch
Advisor: Kathy Foerster
Advisor: Dr. Don Jones