The Butcher Shop 2018: Mysterious Inheritance
September 1 and 2, 2018
Grounds open at 5:30pm  |  Preshow at 6pm  |  Main show at 8pm
FREE (donations gratefully accepted)  |  Parking $5
2500 Estes Road, Chico
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Slow Theatre presents "The Butcher Shop 2018: Mysterious Inheritance,"
a free outdoor festival of original music, plays, film, art, and dance happening Saturday (September 1) and Sunday (September 2) at 2500 Estes Road in Chico, California.

The Butcher Shop is a popular community event that began as a backyard show 29 years ago in the summer of 1989. Conceived by Denver and Dylan Latimer and Casey Simpson, it grew out of Chico's homegrown theatrical and musical talent, and from these efforts Chico’s Blue Room Theatre was born. In 2009, many of the original players—some now working in Los Angeles, New York, and Portland—reunited and added fresh Chico talent to create the current Butcher Shop event, now produced by Slow Theatre.

This is the tenth Butcher Shop production to take place in the orchard at “The End of Normal" (2500 Estes Rd, Chico).
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After two years of a one-play format, this year The Butcher Shop will feature several short plays interspersed with film, art, and dance and tableau.

Past Butcher Shops

Latimer Backyard
1. A Feast For Flies (1989)
2. The Bay Of Pigs (1990)
3. Choking On Tremendous Gore (1992)
4. The Zombie Ship (1993)
5. A Call For All Demons (1994)

Estes Orchard
6. Feast Or Famine (2009)
7. Bloodstock: The Horror-Scope (2010)
8. The Goat Cries At Midnight (2011)
9. Fast & Bulbous (2012)
10. Diabolus Americanus (2013)
11. A Crack In The Climate (2014)
12. Year Of The Goat (2015)
13. The Eleventh Hour (2016)
​14. My Name Was Deception (2017)

Past Butcher Shop Productions

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