Steven Bogart's Pigcat was featured as the December reading in Angels Theatre Company's Salon Reading Series. Through a mixture of flashback and magical realism, Bogart places the audience in the mind of a pre-adolescent boy. Using this narrative style allows the audience to experience the action of the play through Freddy’s perspective, demonstrating a profound need for acknowledgement, acceptance, and an unwavering, albeit tragic, sense of hope. Freddy is desperate, with a sense of unease, ungroundedness, and unreliability. However, he also maintains a desperate untenable hope that...
Steven Bogart's Pigcat was featured as the December reading in Angels Theatre Company's Salon Reading Series. Through a mixture of flashback and magical realism, Bogart places the audience in the mind of a pre-adolescent boy. Using this narrative style allows the audience to experience the action of the play through Freddy’s perspective, demonstrating a profound need for acknowledgement, acceptance, and an unwavering, albeit tragic, sense of hope. Freddy is desperate, with a sense of unease, ungroundedness, and unreliability. However, he also maintains a desperate untenable hope that something--anything will happen to rescue him. Highly recommended.