Raw Bacon From Poland
Opening Night: June 5, 2017
Closing: June 17, 2017
Theater: Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement
2016 Guggenheim Fellow Christina Masciotti returns to Abrons (Vision Disturbance, Adult) with her latest work, Raw Bacon From Poland. For shoe salesman and aspiring personal trainer, Dennis Toledo, a lifetime of trouble assumes a new intensity after a bad tour in Iraq. Though he’s managed to anesthetize the enduring wounds of that service with prescription drug abuse, when he’s arrested on a domestic violence charge and sentenced to Brooklyn Treatment Court, he’s forced to find new ways to handle his volatile tangle of mixed emotions. Further upheaval with his wife leaves him perched on the edge of recovery with an all-consuming drive to win full custody of his six-year-old daughter.
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June 7, 2017
Let fly with the virtual confetti, please. “Raw Bacon From Poland,” the poignant new drama that opened on Wednesday night at the Abrons Arts Center, turns out to be an unexpected celebration of a marriage of true minds. I mean the kind of meld that occurs when a playwright and a performer seem to blend into a hypernatural unity, making artificial words sound realer than real life.
The writer, in this instance, is Christina Masciotti, a downtown dramatist of rigorous personal style whose following includes a lot of theatergoers who consider Broadway a wasteland. The actor is Joel Perez, whose résumé pegs him as a burgeoning Broadway baby, with plum musical parts in the original cast of “Fun Home” and in the New Group revival of “Sweet Charity,” starring Sutton Foster.
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