Cockfighters
5 men, 2 women
A drama about revenge
Cockfighters begins in a lonely barn in West Texas after the cockfights have
ended. Hump, a small town sheriff arrives to have words with rustic patriarch
Dwight Fowler. We learn that we are in a war zone, a town where vengeance
and violence come more naturally to the men than to the gamecocks they fight.
Dwight's nineteen-year-old daughter Shirl is dead and someone is going to
pay. His slow son Clarence is fuming about dead roosters. His mean son CD
is plotting torture. And the law is telling him that justice doesn't belong
to sinners. Well, we'll just see about that.
The play shows the events
leading up to Shirl's murder and the tragedy of her family's revenge, as played
out in the cockfighting pit and a deserted field.
Runs approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes (no intermission).