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LaBute, Neil

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Oberlin Digital Commons at Oberlin Season 2010-2011 Seasons 2010-2020 10-13-2010 Fat Pig (2010) Neil LaBute Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/productions_2010-2011  Part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Sponsored by the Oberlin College Theater and Dance Programand the Sue Caroll Smith FundWritten by Neil LaButeDirected by Holland HamiltonOctober 13 - 16 at 8pm and October 16 at 2pm, 2010Little Theater, Oberlin CollegeTom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert SalazarHelen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magalee CirpiliCarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew GombasJeannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Llewie Nuñezwritten by Neil LaButedirected by Holland Hamilton ‘11October 13 -16, 2010Little Theater, Oberlin CollegeCastDirector . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holland HamiltonStage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . Julia PerezLighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . Ebony Burton Sound Design. . . . . . . . . . . . Ben FerberSet Design . . . . . . . . . . Meredith HicksonTechnical Director . . . . . . . . . . Erin JoenkAsst. Technical Director . . . . . . . Kira GoldnerMaster Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . Erin JoenkLight Board Operator . . . . . . . . Helen RichSound Board Operator . . . . . . Janie BryantRun Crew. . . . . . . . . . . . . Eleanor Reid,                  Miata Rogers, Alyssa Civian,                                Kris Fraser, Noah  MorrisProduction Credits Fat Pig runs approximately two hours and ten minutes.There will be a ten minute intermission.Please turn off all cell phones, watch alarms and pagers.No food or drink permitted in Little Theater.Thank you.Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc.  The script to this play may be purchased from BPPI at BroadwayPlayPubl.comFAT PIGI’ve always taken issue with weight. Sometimes my own, sometimes just weight ingeneral. I am a strong supporter of the new Body Acceptance Movement and yet, as embarrassing as it is, I’ve definitely paid Weight Watchers several times to handle my “mild obesity” (medical term for my body, not mine).I remember when I learned about weight in my High School Physics class. “Weight,” our teacher told us with a grin, “is merely the force of gravity on an object.” So, your mass - which is probably a smaller number than your weight - will always stay the same, but you could be all kinds of different weights in different places in the universe? I was 16 at the time and I remember wanting to scream. What would my life have been like without the pressure of weight?Recently, my Big Sister asked me to share some things I wish I had known in high school and the first years of college relating to self-confidence and body image. Among the list were some of the following:- You know that affirmation,  “My body is beautiful and sacred and I’m going to celebrate it”?  Yeah. I wish I’d followed that.- I wish I knew how good I looked in pictures! Especially recent ones. I think I was 17 or 18 when I figured out a picture I hated when I was younger could look so much better within a year or two years later. What I’ve realized recently is, if there’s a picture I don’t particularly like at first, I could feel different about it within as little as 30 minutes after the first shock of seeing myself wears off.- I wish I had embraced dresses earlier. They make me look and feel amazing.- I wish I had searched for Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing sooner. If I had found that there was a type of exercise that made me WANT to get up at 7 in the morning and DO it, I would have felt SO much better about myself.- I WISH I HAD DANCED MORE. I LOVE to dance and I was scared of dancing because I thought I was bad at it, I thought I looked stupid…all kinds of reasons. I don’t even remember most of them. I LOVE dancing and I LOVE getting other people to dance.When it comes down to it, I don’t want this to be The Woman’s Show or The Fat Show. The story is about how anyone, with any body, finds the strength to overcome insecurity. It begs the question: is it possible to live every moment trusting and loving exactly who you are?This project is the next step in my journey towards Loving. Myself. Silly. What’s yours?- Holland HamiltonDirector’s NoteAshlie Atkinson, Camryn Manheim, Carolyn Weinstein, Ellie Phillips, Emma Rodriguez, The Fat-O-Sphere, Hall Auditorium Staff, Heather Harvey, Hope Rehak, Janie Bryant, Jenny Gaeng, Karyn Todd, Kat Lee, Kellie Liston, Kira Goldner, Laura Cornwall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mama Gena and Sister Goddesses everywhere, Michael Cunningham, Read Tuddenham, Shey Lyn Zanotti, Theater and Dance Department Staff and Faculty, 2011 Theater Honors Candidates, Catlin O’Neill, Shirley and everyone at Quick and Delicious, Oberlin Public Library, Nikki Mitchell, OMTA and OSTASpecial ThanksUPCOMING  OBERLIN COLLEGE THEATER PRODUCTIONSnew.oberlin.edu/theater-danceSponsored by Oberlin College Theater & Dance ProgramCENTRAL TICKET SERVICE AND PUBLICITY BARB KESSLER, Box Office Manager JENNY GAENG, STACY HARRISON, EMMA LOUISE RODRIGUEZ, KARYN TODD, MARLEY ZENO, LIZ COHEN, ELIN RUMMEL, EMMA SCHNEIDERMAN, ANDREA CARNEY, LAUREN FRIEDLANDER, LYZ GLICKMAN, HALLIE HAAS, GLEN GERBUSH, MELISSA DELOMBAERTTHEATER & DANCE PROGRAM FACULTYNUSHA MARTYNUK,  Program Director, Professor of Dance MATTHEW WRIGHT,  Associate Director,  Associate Professor of TheaterHEATHER ANDERSON BOLL,  Visiting Assistant Professor of TheaterANN COOPER ALBRIGHT,  Professor of DanceROGER COPELAND,  Professor of Theater and DanceJOHN DAVIS,  Visiting Instructor of TheaterJUSTIN EMEKA,  Visiting Assistant Professor of TheaterHOLLY HANDMAN-LOPEZ,  Visiting Assistant Professor of DanceCAROLINE JACKSON SMITH,  Associate Professor of Theater and AASTCARTER MCADAMS,  Professor of DancePAUL MOSER,  Associate Professor of TheaterELESA ROSASCO,  Associate Professor of DanceADENIKE SHARPLEY,  Artist-in-Residence DEBORAH VOGEL,  Visiting Instructor of Danceby Mieko Gavia ‘11directed by Heather Harvey ‘11November 4 - 6, 2010directed by Matthew WrightDecember 8 -11, 2010by Shauna Siggelkow ‘11directed by Shauna Siggelkow ‘11February 2 - 6, 2010a performance in Hales Art Spaceby Lauren Friedlander ‘11December 3 -5, 2010

Fat Pig (2010)

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