Pig
| Click on an image to zoom in and view at higher resolution. | Description | Pig Production Data |
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 | The mood is set by the idea that it is a Memorial Day Weekend, and a typical Irish family from Ozone Park, Queens, is gathering in the backyard for a Bar-B-Q. |
Written by Tammy Ryan Directed by Tim Corcoran Scenery by Sal Perrotta Lighting by Jeremy Kumin Produced by 29th Street Rep October 1996 Pig is about domestic violence, and despair, and the sins of the father being revisited upon the son. At times it seems more like those sins warp time and space to make the son into the very same kind of violent individual that he joined the navy to run away from.
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 | That idea is quickly shattered when a daughter who still lives at home shows open hostility at another who is moving back in to escape a wife-battering husband. She resents having to give up the space she pays rent for to her charity-case sister. | |
 | As the sun sets, we are left with a dusky glow and the poor illumination provided by the no longer so festive Christmas bulbs, put up to commemorate an impending vist from their brother who hasn't been home in years. | |
 | When junior comes home with a mysterious leave from the navy, carrying a pig which he symbolically intends to barbecue, his presence disrupts the already unstable family dynamic to the point of gunplay. | |
 | Finally, when the true purpose of his visit is revealed, and violence between him and his abusive father seems inevitable, a crazy hostage situation ensues. | |
 | By the play's end, even the innocuous next-door neighbor has been dragged into the vortex of misshapen dreams, misguided hostilities, and misdirected vengeance. |
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