Love should conquer all, shouldn’t it?
Last Saturday I went to see “Fat Pig”, written by Neil LaBute, at the Wharf Theatre
Tom meets Helen. Helen is a librarian; she’s good-natured, funny, sharp as a tack and full of life. Helen seems just what Tom needs. Tom seems just what Helen wants.
But Helen wears a “larger size”. She is, as someone brutally puts it, a ‘fat pig’.
Love should be able to transcend mere appearances – especially in this day and age. But Tom arrives at work one day to find Helen’s photograph doing the email rounds, and his peers aren’t backward in their barbed observations about Tom’s new girlfriend.
Can Tom put aside all the cruelty and sarcasm of his colleagues, ex-lovers and friends and follow his heart? Or will the pettiness of a world that judges by surfaces triumph again?
I really like the actor who plays Helen, Katrina Milosevic. I wish they had dressed her in something a bit nicer, though. Just because you are big, doesn’t mean you have no dress sense. I won’t spoil the ending. Suffice it to say that it was probably the most logical ending considering the influence Tom’s “friends” had on him and his inability to see what a nasty person his so-called best friend really was. Anyway, it was an interesting play – well worth seeing.
The next play I’m going to see is “Woman in Mind” by Alan Ayckbourn.
