←Recommendations of French Pig

  • Eric Roberts: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    This play is funny, very Mel Brooks humor mixed with a vulgar spouting pig whose objectives are very clear from the start. The play doesn't linger too long in moments but has moments where the emotions can breathe as the woman deals with grief and responsibility. This play is layered and comes to a satisfying conclusion.

    This play is funny, very Mel Brooks humor mixed with a vulgar spouting pig whose objectives are very clear from the start. The play doesn't linger too long in moments but has moments where the emotions can breathe as the woman deals with grief and responsibility. This play is layered and comes to a satisfying conclusion.

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  • Cheryl Bear: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    A fascinating time when pigs were on trial that makes us question everything! Well done.

    A fascinating time when pigs were on trial that makes us question everything! Well done.

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  • Toby Malone: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    A fearless, sharp-as-a-whip farce that follows a medieval French criminal trial designed to prosecute a murderous, mouthy pig. Like, the animal. Jacobi builds a world that is self-aware and hilarious, taking the time to follow the multi-day trial and its inevitable outcome, with a deft wit and brilliant character choices. This one's a gem.

    A fearless, sharp-as-a-whip farce that follows a medieval French criminal trial designed to prosecute a murderous, mouthy pig. Like, the animal. Jacobi builds a world that is self-aware and hilarious, taking the time to follow the multi-day trial and its inevitable outcome, with a deft wit and brilliant character choices. This one's a gem.

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  • Interact Theatre Company: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    InterAct Theatre Company presented FRENCH PIG as part of our 7th Annual Core Playwrights Weekend in December 2019. In this serrated, strange, hysterical dark comedy, David reflects on how the justice system privileges and punishes strictly along class lines, and refracts that into a meditation on how our social circumstances color and crush our sense of purpose. We are proud to have contributed to the life of this piece.

    InterAct Theatre Company presented FRENCH PIG as part of our 7th Annual Core Playwrights Weekend in December 2019. In this serrated, strange, hysterical dark comedy, David reflects on how the justice system privileges and punishes strictly along class lines, and refracts that into a meditation on how our social circumstances color and crush our sense of purpose. We are proud to have contributed to the life of this piece.

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  • George Sapio: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    Where did this play come from? Don't care--Need more from there. Play very funny, and ring very true about absurdity of life.

    Where did this play come from? Don't care--Need more from there. Play very funny, and ring very true about absurdity of life.

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  • Doug DeVita: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    The joie de vivre coursing through every line and action in this play about death lifts it into its own seriously funny, hilariously serious world; the central role of Amée is a gift for an actress, as is Pig, one of the funniest, snarkiest, most horribly lovable anthropomorphic characters I've ever come across. The possibilities for inventive staging abound, and in performance this must be sheer delight. I'd say well done, but that would be just so wrong, considering Pig, and her fate...

    The joie de vivre coursing through every line and action in this play about death lifts it into its own seriously funny, hilariously serious world; the central role of Amée is a gift for an actress, as is Pig, one of the funniest, snarkiest, most horribly lovable anthropomorphic characters I've ever come across. The possibilities for inventive staging abound, and in performance this must be sheer delight. I'd say well done, but that would be just so wrong, considering Pig, and her fate...

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  • Ruth Cooper: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    Um, okay. Wow. This play is amazing, funny, and vastly original. The dialogue is absolutely joyous to listen to, even if only from the page. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to read a play that doesn't suck you down to the banks of despair, and in fact gifts you with levity! Read. this. play. Love. this. pig.

    Um, okay. Wow. This play is amazing, funny, and vastly original. The dialogue is absolutely joyous to listen to, even if only from the page. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to read a play that doesn't suck you down to the banks of despair, and in fact gifts you with levity! Read. this. play. Love. this. pig.

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  • Jonathan O'Neill: French Pig by David Jacobi
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    FRENCH PIG is a delight. What begins with a historical curiosity -- did people seriously put *animals* on trial?! -- ultimately reaches a place of sincere and familiar pain as Jacobi questions why we persist, emotionally, in affairs we know to be pointless. Along the way, we get a wonderful series of kangaroo court scenes (the prosecutor, a mercury-mad alchemist, wants to chop off the defense's head. His dad is the judge), a gently funny subplot about a borrowed cart, and one memorable talking pig.

    FRENCH PIG is a delight. What begins with a historical curiosity -- did people seriously put *animals* on trial?! -- ultimately reaches a place of sincere and familiar pain as Jacobi questions why we persist, emotionally, in affairs we know to be pointless. Along the way, we get a wonderful series of kangaroo court scenes (the prosecutor, a mercury-mad alchemist, wants to chop off the defense's head. His dad is the judge), a gently funny subplot about a borrowed cart, and one memorable talking pig.

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