Chicken
From: Monday, 25th June 2012
To: Saturday, 21 July 2012
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Synopsis
Wendell's wife Lina is pregnant. His wayward best friend Floyd sleeps nightly on their couch. And is if things aren't stressful enough, he's under constant pressure to 'father' his messed-up neighbours in the Bronx. In an effort to get some money together, Wendell takes in a rooster to train for an illegal cockfight. As they discover that training a bird for a death match in Washington Heights is not for the feint of heart, this dysfunctional family comes to blows before the fight ever takes place.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 27 June 2012
Chicken is a right load of old cockerel about rooster fights, friendship and dysfunctional marriage in the Bronx; and, in Sam Neophytou’s squawky production of Mike Batistick’s 2007 off-Broadway grunge fest, some classic ropey stage-management.
Lights flash up on a black-garbed scene-shifter. A new packet of cornflakes is already opened (ditto a new beer bottle at the race-track). And a plate of eggs is manifestly just one little yolk. This shoddiness is symptomatic of a show that rings false at every turn.
The self-conscious grossness of the play – half-Cuban Floyd (George Georgiou), best pal from foster home days of toll-keeper, burger-scoffing Wendell (an unsuitably trim-figured Craig Kelly) is discovered taking a leak, sniffing his armpits and lazily playing with himself in front of television porn – proves way beyond this cast.
“Way beyond even cute little ...
A show that rings false at every turn”
Cast
Craig Kelly (Wendall)
George Georgiou (Floyd)
Lisa Maxwell (Lina)
Andy Lucas
Amy Tez
Daniel Yabut
Cristian Solimeno
Creative
Mike Batistick (Author)
Killer Theatre (Company)
Inner City Productions (Company)
Sam Neophytou (Director)
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