LA WEEKLY REVIEWS "THE BARKING PIG"

Barking Pig

“NEW REVIEW GO THE BARKING PIG Writer-director Michael Shaw Fisher’s world premiere play takes us to highly unexpected places. The setting of a sleazy bar inhabited by the dregs of society initially suggests a poetic Tennessee Williams tragicomedy or a bloody Tracy Letts thriller. Yet ribald hilarity and tongue-in-cheek metaphysical themes soon predominate when, at the titular dive, news arrives that an imprisoned maniac has escaped, vowing to come and slaughter one of the bar’s denizens. The eight-member ensemble, led by J. Scott as the vengeful psychopath and Asher Lyons as a scummy con artist, is sheer perfection, proving that unadulterated ham can be a sublime guilty pleasure.” (Les Spindle/BS)