Synopsis

Fatboy

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John Clancy

Published by Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Fatboy is a brutal comedy inspired by Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi

This satire on modern America's insatiable appetites - from gobbling up 72oz steaks to small nations - is presented as a live-action Punch and Judy show

Fast-moving, shocking, profane, dead-on, this fun-house mirror reflection of the world today, presents the brutish Fatboy and his monstrous wife, Queen Fudgie the First, as they each stand trial for war crimes

Despite overwhelming evidence, the Court refuses to convict and succumbs to Fatboy's "persuasive" tactics

REVIEWS

"Brazen ... daring ... highly entertaining" ~ Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

"Make room for Fatboy. Meaner than Stalin, hungrier than Idi Amin, deadlier than Pol Pot, he is the grotesque composite of every despot who ever lived ...he is also savagely funny ... Some plays ridicule their audience; others inspire political action. Fatboy may be the rare work that does both" ~ Jorge Morales, Village Voice

"This is brilliant political satire, hitting the zeitgeist right where it hurts ... A ground-breaking piece of American absurdism, a transatlantic take on the Ubu tradition that goes beyond imitation to seize and transform the myth for a new age of American power" ~ Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

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