←Recommendations of Chicken.

An unnerving, devastating, and darkly funny play about the thrill, dangers, and complications of power and desire. Giacopasi's language is rich and full of tension, her use of tones and structures bold and free, and her willingness to plunge into uncomfortable depths make this an unforgettable experience.

This is my introduction to Giacopasi's work and I found it immensely engaging, powerful, and completely unique. The world she created is staggering and engrossing. Her grasp of character is rich with psychological nuance and admirable. I look forward to seeing a production of this one day, hopefully soon!

"You are blindfolded in the jungle. You are deaf in a monsoon. You’re everything." Theresa Giacopasi's CHICKEN. is haunting, philosophical, and weirdly funny. In this work, she's examining the darkest corners of the mind of a workaholic. Sex, headlights, IKEA, stackable rings, all these things are just concepts we use to dig ourselves out of a hole. Recommend!

Chicken. is a daring, unsettling play about the holes we find ourselves in and the risks we're willing to take to get out of them. It moves with pace and confidence, and I love how fully-felt it is: as if the playwright has crawled into every corner of her characters and is unafraid to show what she discovered. There's so much truth in its tight 80 pages. And as long as you've got four great actors, it's easy to imagine a first-rate production at any budget-scale.

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Theresa Giacopasi and their play Chicken. as a finalist for our 2014 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

I love this play. Smart, well-written with compelling, engaging characters all just trying to make sense of the world. I would love to see a production of this play someday!