AZTEC ECONOMY in association with THEATRE SYNESTHESIA is pleased to announce the Austin premiere of BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME by Casey Wimpee, directed by Leah Bonvissuto.

After premiering four years ago in the Cincinnati Fringe and performing in New York City, Baltimore, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME will play a limited engagement at First Street Studio (2400 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78702), with a repertory cast that includes the original NYC production as well as an ensemble from Austin-based Theatre Synesthesia. Performances begin Thursday, May 18th and continue through Saturday, June 10th, 2017.

1973, West Virginia. Following a cave collapse, five coal miners struggle to survive the dwindling supply of oxygen, the lack of food and water, the unravelling sense of passing time, and, even more threatening, their own competing natures. Brutally weaving through family histories, complicated friendships, crooked politics, childhood visions, audacious hopes, eerie dreams, criminal addictions, and fervent spirituality in this run-of-the-mill Appalachian community, BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME is a descent into the male psyche-in-crisis where secret desires, carnal urges, and hidden memories come boiling to the surface in a primitive territory that mirrors the subliminal mind.

Featuring Adam Belvo (Best Lead Actor nominee, NY Innovative Theatre Awards), Isaac Byrne (Two-Time NY Innovative Theatre Award-Winning Director, Artistic Director 4the People, former Artistic Director Working Man’s Clothes), Judd Farris (B. Iden Payne Best Supporting Actor), Devin Finn (Austin Shakespeare, Co-Founder of Theatre Synesthesia), Colt W. Keeney (New Orleans Fringe, Lead singer – THE BAD INVADERS), Nicholas Kier (Zach Theatre, Co-Founder of Theatre Synesthesia), Michael Mason (U – The Klingon Opera Berlin, Outstanding Innovator in the Arts, SE TX Arts Council), Adam Laten Wilson (Aztec Economy), and Cole Wimpee (Austin Critic’s Table Best Supporting Actor; Kennedy Center Irene Ryan Acting Finalist). BUTCHER HOLLER HERE WE COME is immersively staged with the audience surrounding the actors. The performance is lit entirely by the headlamps on the performers’ heads.

“Visceral. A jarring piece of theater and a fine introduction to the Tank’s DarkFest!”–New York Times

“A fast-paced thriller. Bold, inventive, crisp staging. A finale that is at once terrifying and exciting!”–NY Theatre Now

“A Vulnerable and exciting experience. Committed and powerful performances. One grand hallucination!”–NY TheatreScene

“Inspired direction by Leah Bonvissuto of a strong cast.”–Dallas Morning News

“An intense drama….the acting is excellent ….very compelling”–New Orleans Defender

“It is a great inspiration to learn that theater is still alive in this country….exciting work that is food for the senses and the spirit”–Baltimore Examiner

“The result fuses the creeping horror of The Shining with the tension of Mamet’s American Buffalo”–TheaterJones