By Ernest Kearney — Fresh Meat is set in a dystopian future where the world order seems to have fused into three distinct classes: cannibals, furries and butchers.
Now the only category of that trio which may need some explanation is “furries.”
fur·ry
fərē/noun
plural noun: furries
- An enthusiast for animal characters with human characteristics, in particular a person who dresses up in costume as such a character or uses one as an avatar online.
The origin, of the Furry craze, is debated but it has developed into a world-wide subculture of cosplay which originated in Japan. (Of course!) There’s even an offshoot of right-wing furries obsessed with merging the cosplay with Nazism, termed aptly “alt-furry.”
Today there are online societies – Furcadia, FurryMUCK and even a community within the virtual environment of Second Life, as well as conventions held globally, such as Califur held in San Diego.** **
I imagine playwright Karen Bram Cassidy had some seed of an idea involving the perverse appetites of humankind; however, whatever that seed might have been, it received no nurturing by either her or director Eric White and the concept took no root.
Though the cast rants and hoots, prances about in cat masks, waves around plastic meat cleavers and gnaws on rubber hands (all of which looks to have been purchased from Hollywood’s Largest Toy Store), there is not much play to this play, and the whole evening is merely “full of sound and furries, signifying nothing.”
An apology for the pun, and a low-grade Bronze Medal.
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** ** Once going to review a play in San Diego, my wife Marlene and I ran into a crowd attending Califur; a smirking bow-tied coyote began flirting with Marlene. I had to chase his furry ass off with an over-sized mallet from Acme Rents.
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Fresh Meat
Played During the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
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