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Pig

Pig
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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.