Chicken & Biscuits Serves Up Sustenance at a Church Funeral
Chicken & Biscuits will not serve every hunger. In the comic scenes, when the sisters are
eyeing each other’s outfits or Logan is bobbling his Bible, the play stands on solid ground,
but in the long-seeming resolution scenes, as the drama comes to rely on plot developments,
the journey toward uplift turns convenient and then mechanical. Yet just because the script’s
jokey sections are its fiercest doesn’t mean Lyons isn’t taking some things seriously.
Underneath all the mayhem and rollicking, there’s acknowledgment of real pain.
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