San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
"It's almost surprising to think that people could still be shocked," director Barbara Damashek muses about reactions to Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig," which she has staged for Aurora Theatre. "It's not like Lenny Bruce. We're not shocked by language anymore. But...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Fat Pig: Drama. By Neil LaBute. Directed by Barbara Damashek. With Jud Williford, Liliane Klein, Alexandra Creighton and Peter Ruocco. Through Dec. 6. Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. One hour, 45 minutes. $15-$55. (510) 843-...
Mercury News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... always, LaBute exposes the vulnerable parts of the human psyche and then jabs at them ruthlessly. Barbara Damashek's acute staging of the play, which runs through Dec. 6 at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre, keeps us perpetually off-balance, squirming amid the giggles.The second in a trilogy of plays that includes "The Shape of Things," which the Aurora staged in 2003, this post-modern morality...
