The Chicken Snake

Pittsburgh City Paper - Pittsburgh: "If we've learned anything from Kevin Smith, Garden State and the Toxic Avenger, it's that New Jersey is a weird place: quirky people, surreal coincidences, lots of strip malls and bad hair. In fiction, New Jersey is where America dumps all its well-meaning freaks and their hokey pastimes. Now we can add The Chicken Snake, a world premiere by Amy Hartman and performed by the Playhouse REP, to the canon of bizarre Jersey dramas. How bizarre? The play opens in June, and there's a blizzard outside. And a stabbed clown is sprawled in a truck. And a magician is smoking dope in his easy chair, talking to the apparition of his dying wife. Stuff like that."