Written by Charles Mee
Directed by Anthony Darnell & Caitlin Sullivan
November 8 – November 17, 2007
In the Ohio National Financial Services Gallery
Featuring the Glass Group Show
At The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center

“Soon enough, you’d see a new bunch sitting here on the terrace. Possibly without tastes as fine as ours–these are barbarians, after all, after all these years they’ve been barbarized.”
“If property is theft, the play suggests, then capitalism is murder.”

—Charles L. Mee

Drawing dynamically from art, music, video, pop culture, and foreign policy, Mee investigates one tumultuous night in a man made utopia.

Urban renewal projects, such as Over the Rhine’s recent development, plan on remaking communities into an “…attractive and productive neighborhood for residents and visitors alike.” This makes one wonder if the vibrant community of Over the Rhine isn’t already attractive and/or productive?

Praise for The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador

“Playwright CHARLES L. MEE is not a household name, but he is revered among those who treasure theater that pushes boundaries…For a local sample of Mee’s work, check out the regional premiere of his 1989 script The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador by the SATORI GROUP. It’s being produced in Covington at Carnegie Center in an art gallery surrounded by a glass art exhibition, the kind of setting where the corrupt elite might exchange banalities at a cocktail party, ignoring the murder and anarchy surrounding them. That’s Mee’s plot, and Satori will put you in the middle of it.

- Rick Pender, City Beat