The Jewish Chronicle

Review: Fat Pig

May 30, 2008 00:00

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Trafalgar Studios , London SW1A 2DY

Sometimes you become so conscious of a production, you can hardly see the play. This is one of those times.

It features four British comedy stars — ok, not stars, but three famous, one not so famous faces, who have been cast in this play mainly because of their TV appearances — and America’s hottest playwright. Well, not as hot as he was, but still, one of the best of his generation.

Neil LaBute’s latest, brutal offering is the second in a trilogy about how we judge — and are judged — by the way we look, as opposed to the way we are. The bigotry here is not racism but fatism.

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