By Ernest Kearney — In The Pig Farm, Director John Leingang and Writer Richard Klein crowd their stage with a dizzyingly dopey cluster-f**k of genres, providing their audiences with murderous cuties, suicidal elders, asinine Christians, coldblooded mobsters, ravenous piggies, high kicking undead, inane cinematic references, pleated skirts in soft core bondage, demon possession, cotton candy sadism and a trio of problematic cadavers.
So what’s not to like?
Well….
This promising chaotic silliness falls victim to its own chaos; Director Leingang lacks the much-needed chair and bullwhip to keep either his cast or material in line and Writer Klein is unable to maintain the multitude of balls he’s juggling in play.
There are some good laughs in the show especially from Morgan Smalley, as the persistently repossessed corpse, and occasionally from Molly Bibeau and Tessa Nesbet, as our pleat-skirted Abbott and Costello. Klein conjures up some strong comedic situations and some very funny lines, but nothing demands more controlled discipline than a good, chaotic, farcical romp.
A BRONZE MEDAL
For Additional Information click below:
https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/6836
The Pig Farm
runs during
Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022
at
The Broadwater Black Box
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Schedule:
Saturday June 11, 2:00 PM,
Saturday June 18, 9:30 PM,
Thursday June 23, 11:00 PM,
Saturday June 25, 2:30 PM.
The tickets are $13.00
purchased online or at the door.
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