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Pig
Pig
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Author: Tammy Ryan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 80 Pub. Date: 1998 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822216000 ISBN-13: 9780822216001 Cast Size: 5 female, 4 male
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About
the Play:
Pig is a full-length drama by Tammy Ryan. The sins of a father are on display and wreaking havoc in the backyard of the Robinson home. Pig is the chilling story of a family barbecue turned brutal and violent
when a long-absent son
returns.
Pig paints a searing
portrait of a wildly dysfunctional family as they gather for a
backyard barbecue. It is the day before Labor Day, 1990, and for the first time in a long time, the Robinson family is going to be together.
Jason, the black sheep who's
been in the Navy since a violent confrontation with his father, has
just called from the airport, announcing that he's on his way home.
Jason's family – his parents Jack and Irene, his sisters Jeanann,
Maureen and Peggy, and Aunt Bernice and Uncle George – await his
arrival as they drink, fight, joke, sing Girl Scout songs, threaten
each other with playing Charades and otherwise stake out their
territories. Jason arrives with presents for his family from around
the world, and a freshly killed "Pig"
of the title in the garbage bag to roast, creating a stir at
the party and forcing emotions to rise. After Santos, the next door
neighbour, casts doubt as to what's really in the garbage bag, Jason
takes his family hostage and forces them at gun point to play a life
and death game of Charades.
Her first play. Pig, written straight out of grad school,
was developed at the 1991 Y.E.S. Festival of New Plays at Northern
Kentucky University, work-shopped in Pittsburgh by the Pyramid Group,
and showcased by Off-Broadway's Love Creek Productions in 1993. It
was subsequently produced by Off-Broadway's 29th Street Repertory and
Weissberger Theatre Group in 1996. Since
then the play had regional premieres at professional theatres across
the US.
Cast: 5 female, 4 male
What people say:
"The sins of a father are on
display and wreaking havoc... in Tammy Ryan's
taut drama Pig... the stage is set for an
emotional explosion." — The New York Times
"A compelling realistic
portrait of a working-class family." — BackStage
"A gut wrenching, teeth
clenching drama." — CurtainUp
"Pig is a
powerhouse play packed with surprises. More than once Tammy
Ryan's sometimes realistic, sometimes surreal tale
deceptively lures you in with wild comedy, then slams you with
unexpected psychological twists." — Denver Post
About the Playwright:
Tammy Ryan is an American playwright. Honours include the
Heinz Endowment's Creative Heights Residency Grant, American Alliance
of Theater in Education's Distinguished Play Award, the Pittsburgh
Cultural Trust Creative Achievement Award and fellowships from
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sewanee Writers Conference and
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her plays have been performed
across the United States and internationally.
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