Raw Bacon from Poland
Description
For shoe salesman and aspiring personal trainer Dennis Toledo, a lifetime of trouble assumes a new intensity after a bad tour in Iraq.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“Let fly with the virtual confetti, please. RAW BACON FROM POLAND [is a] poignant new drama … The writer…is Christina Masciotti, a downtown dramatist of rigorous personal style whose following includes a lot of theatergoers who consider Broadway a wasteland … Ms Masciotti’s distinctively awkward dialogue has never sounded more organic, or more revelatory of character. Ms Masciotti (VISION DISTURBANCE, SOCIAL SECURITY) has an ear for the quirks and imperfections of everyday speech. This means that her characters often talk in winding syntax replete with malapropisms that would dismay Strunk and White … RAW BACON charts the steps in Dennis’s coming to terms with his wartime experiences. It is, in some ways, a conventional `recovery’ narrative of the sort found in many an inspirational memoir and movie. But Ms Masciotti’s brand of sentimentality has a rough honesty that often transforms the formulaic … But like many experimental playwrights of her generation (including her mentor, the downtown giant Richard Maxwell), Ms Masciotti deliberately embraces clichés, and finds exotic and individual truths in their use and distortion … Ms Masciotti’s script allows for aria-like moments from each member of the cast … But it is the language of combustible Dennis that truly lights up the ashen world in which the play is set …” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Author
Christina MasciottiChristina Masciotti has been described as a playwright with a "distinctive gift" by Ben Brantley of The New York Times. In New York, her work has been presented by The Bushwick Starr, New York City Players, Abrons Arts Center, New York Theatre Workshop, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, and CUNY's Prelude Festival. Domestic and international presentations include: Arts Emerson's T N T Festival (Boston); Circle X Theatre (Los Angeles); LaStarria 90's Desorientacion Series (Santiago, Chile); Theater Bonn (Bonn, Germany); the VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival (Modena, Italy); the International Theatre Institute (Athens, Greece); and, as part of PS 122's New York Express Tour, Theater Garonne (Toulouse, France), T2G (Genevilliers, France), Le Maillon (Strasbourg, France), and ZKM (Zagreb, Croatia). VISION DISTURBANCE was cited as one of the Best Plays of 2010 by Time Out New York, and monologues from her later play ADULT have been anthologized in Smith and Kraus' The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2014, and Applause Theater and Cinema Books' Best Contemporary Monologues for Women. The original scripts for both VISION DISTURBANCE and ADULT have been selected for preservation in the permanent archives of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 10/11/2017 |
| Pages | 62 |
| ISBN | 9780881457322 |
Special Notes
Premiered at Abrons Arts Center in June 2017
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com