Recommendations of The Pitchforks

  • Jack Horton Gilbert: The Pitchforks

    Dark, sexy, haunting. Never lets you get comfortable while it drives to some killer, unexpected locations.

    Dark, sexy, haunting. Never lets you get comfortable while it drives to some killer, unexpected locations.

  • Ross Tedford Kendall: The Pitchforks

    I lost count of all the twists in this play. This really delivers on the idea of representation in a genre, both with the main narrative and where it goes from there. I wish I could write a play like this. Great job!

    I lost count of all the twists in this play. This really delivers on the idea of representation in a genre, both with the main narrative and where it goes from there. I wish I could write a play like this. Great job!

  • Shaun Leisher: The Pitchforks

    A play with a twist that was utterly surprising and utterly satisfying. I need to see a production of this with the budget for all the moments of stage magic.

    A play with a twist that was utterly surprising and utterly satisfying. I need to see a production of this with the budget for all the moments of stage magic.

  • Jeremy Sony: The Pitchforks

    Electrifying. Bold. Suspenseful. Insert your favorite positive expletive here. Just wow. Andrew Kramer is a commanding storyteller who writes with an inspiring fearlessness. The Pitchforks doesn't hold back, in any regard. It's raw. It's seductive. It's unpredictable and asks its audience to question some truths about what they're watching. This is a play I couldn't put down, and I came away from it with some new understandings. It does exactly what we want art to do, and it's an awesome ride. Bonus points: his characters speak and move with purpose, and his stage directions are visceral and...

    Electrifying. Bold. Suspenseful. Insert your favorite positive expletive here. Just wow. Andrew Kramer is a commanding storyteller who writes with an inspiring fearlessness. The Pitchforks doesn't hold back, in any regard. It's raw. It's seductive. It's unpredictable and asks its audience to question some truths about what they're watching. This is a play I couldn't put down, and I came away from it with some new understandings. It does exactly what we want art to do, and it's an awesome ride. Bonus points: his characters speak and move with purpose, and his stage directions are visceral and sublime.

  • Cheryl Bear: The Pitchforks

    A frighting horror that asks some really great questions in a humorous fashion that makes this mystery a thrilling adventure! Well done!

    A frighting horror that asks some really great questions in a humorous fashion that makes this mystery a thrilling adventure! Well done!

  • Jan Rosenberg: The Pitchforks

    HOLY SHIT. This is fantastic. A complete and utter mindfuck. Genuinely terrifying-and not just because of the horror genre. I really did not see the last scene of this play coming. Reminds me of some of my favorite plays I've ever seen, GLORIA, for one. This horror fan is satiated...and personally, I'd love to watch that film.

    HOLY SHIT. This is fantastic. A complete and utter mindfuck. Genuinely terrifying-and not just because of the horror genre. I really did not see the last scene of this play coming. Reminds me of some of my favorite plays I've ever seen, GLORIA, for one. This horror fan is satiated...and personally, I'd love to watch that film.

  • Vince Gatton: The Pitchforks

    Yowza, this play. As a horror-film fan, I’m usually left pretty cold by most theatrical attempts at the genre; but this sucker is deeply unsettling, genuinely terrifying, and sad as hell. And that’s before it takes its big left turn and becomes another kind of play altogether. (Or does it?) Horror is at its best when its metaphors work, and boy does this play understand that — even as it rips the genre constructs aside and takes aim at the power structure of the genre itself.

    Don’t even read the keywords; dive in blind and take the ride.

    Yowza, this play. As a horror-film fan, I’m usually left pretty cold by most theatrical attempts at the genre; but this sucker is deeply unsettling, genuinely terrifying, and sad as hell. And that’s before it takes its big left turn and becomes another kind of play altogether. (Or does it?) Horror is at its best when its metaphors work, and boy does this play understand that — even as it rips the genre constructs aside and takes aim at the power structure of the genre itself.

    Don’t even read the keywords; dive in blind and take the ride.

  • Nick Malakhow: The Pitchforks

    This mindblowing play succeeds as horror, satire, and an exploration of questions about what it means to create queer art--who gets to make it, what does it look like, who is it for. Kramer creates a dark, unsettling, sexy, and absolutely hilarious world. Most impressive to me is how this works both as a piece of visceral horror and also a keenly intellectual examination of how toxic masculinity shapes, perverts, and can destroy the lives of queer people. The ending, while horrific, is satisfying and strangely hopeful, leaving us wondering which was more horrifying-part 1 or 2.

    This mindblowing play succeeds as horror, satire, and an exploration of questions about what it means to create queer art--who gets to make it, what does it look like, who is it for. Kramer creates a dark, unsettling, sexy, and absolutely hilarious world. Most impressive to me is how this works both as a piece of visceral horror and also a keenly intellectual examination of how toxic masculinity shapes, perverts, and can destroy the lives of queer people. The ending, while horrific, is satisfying and strangely hopeful, leaving us wondering which was more horrifying-part 1 or 2.

  • Kullen Burnet: The Pitchforks

    Terrifically queer and totally terrifying. Not only a really funny, sensitive, thrilling horror play but also amazing in how it flickers a light on the horror of trying to create art in opposition of those in with monstrous power. This play is a reclamation, a revenge and a rollercoaster ride a la Final Destination 3. Read immediately!

    Terrifically queer and totally terrifying. Not only a really funny, sensitive, thrilling horror play but also amazing in how it flickers a light on the horror of trying to create art in opposition of those in with monstrous power. This play is a reclamation, a revenge and a rollercoaster ride a la Final Destination 3. Read immediately!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Pitchforks

    I love the meta aspects of this play and how wonderful it is to see the tough straight men transform! The violence in both acts is really fantastic too! Fabulous work - I highly recommend!

    I love the meta aspects of this play and how wonderful it is to see the tough straight men transform! The violence in both acts is really fantastic too! Fabulous work - I highly recommend!