A slightly surreal comedy exploring the nature of the roles of victim and perpertrator and whether they are interchangeable. Ideally, to be performed with Chips.
Ian – rough diamond, hopeless burglar and feckless fast-foodie – stumbles into the underbelly of London, in this high-speed comedy with a cutting edge. Bizarre encounters with the grotesque and the merely hapless leave our hero reeling, but he still finds time for a chicken and mushroom pie…
Inspired by James Woolf’s two-year stint as writer in residence in a prison, Pie is enjoying a revival with its publication in .Cent magazine and a recent serving at the King’s Head, performed by Mike Goodenough and directed by Laura Baggaley. It was previously performed in various venues including a Young Offenders Institution by Gary Sefton.
Running time 30 minutes.
Read an extract of Chicken and Mushroom Pie.
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Sarah Kane (1971-1999)
"The press was screaming about cannibalism live on stage, but, of course, audiences weren’t looking at actual atrocities, but at an imaginative response to them in an odd theatrical form, apparently broken-backed and schizophrenic, which presented material without comment and asked the audience to craft their own response. The representation of violence caused more anger than actual violence."