THE FOOD CHAIN - info?

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 8/12/10 at 7:50am

A local director contacted me about possibly appearing in Nicky Silver's THE FOOD CHAIN. I don't know ANYthing about this show. What is it about? Is it a comedy? What kind of comedy is it? Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/12/10 at 9:27am

Ummm...not to be rude, but why didn't you just ask the director? I bet you s/he knows all about it.

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 8/12/10 at 10:45am

I'm meeting with the director next week. I just wanted to get a jump on things. Plus I was hoping for people's opinions on the show since it's one I am so not familiar with.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 8/12/10 at 7:20pm

a wonderful funny sad lyrical play. When i directed it i ignored two things close to Silver's heart, admittedly....the ALL CAPS INDICATING MUCH YELLING and the padded to grotesque authorial stand-in. Silver maintains that in order for the audience to laugh they can't feel the actor is truly self-hating, and a big fat suit separates actor from character. i maintain that the empathy anyone feels over their weight brings a humor from another point of view. My thought, which i expressed to another Silverian critic at the talk back, was that if one other character in the play boasts about his sexual prowess as much as the Silver stand-in laments his weight, we don't pad the stud's crotch to make sure the audience knows the actor himself is not an egomaniac.....so there you have it.