Fat Pig
From: Friday, 16th May 2008
To: Saturday, 6 September 2008
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Synopsis
When Tom first meets Helen there is an instant connection, but its not exactly love at first sight... Helen is a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized - and then some - so its only so long before the insults start to fly from Tom's shallow yet shockingly funny office buddies.
Our Review:
28 May 2008
Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig is a slight play on a weighty theme. You fall in love with someone who looks unusual, in this case very large – although there is nothing unusual about that in America and, increasingly, here – but have trouble going public about it. What to do?
Like all good playwrights, LaBute operates on two levels. The fatness of his sweet-tempered heroine Helen is both a literal expression of her bountiful humanity and a metaphorical signal of the difference in all people, not just handicapped or culturally alien – but temperamentally unique, too.
For it’s clear in the tortured, wittily inflected performance of Peep Show star Robert Webb as Tom that diving into the enveloping “niceness” of Ella Smith’s beautiful, gargantuan Helen is as much a spiritual tactic as a physical one: he wants a new comfort zone after a needling, nagging relationship with the screeching sexpot Jeannie (Gavin and Stacey’s [J...
Cast
Robert Webb (Tom)
Ella Smith (Helen)
Kris Marshall
Joanna Page
Creative
Neil LaBute (Author)
Howard Panter (for Ambassador Theatre Group) (Producer)
Barry Weissler (Producer)
Neil LaBute (Director)
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