←Recommendations of Chicken Is Condemned To Be Free

This was delightful. I was looking for something for my students to read in class (for fun) and OMG I LOLed thinking about them navigating this ludicrousness. This short play is whimsical yet not without grounding, silly but not without sentiment and meaning. When I finished the play, I exclaimed "YES!" since I was so happy to find a piece that was so well-executed and ridiculous.

A strange and wonderful blend of futility, philosophy, hope, uncertainty and acceptance. Beautiful, morbid and impossible to ignore, like a giant funeral wreath of black roses laid over a casket.

Actors, directors, designers and audiences will love a production of "Chicken is Condemned to Be Free." Bravo to Jesse Jae Hoon.

Oh my gosh, YES. Two recently-decapitated chickens reconcile themselves to the fact that they are about to die, and it's funny. But also, the chickens are, at moments, pretty profound. Also, one is definitely a murderer. What a mix. I love this short, and I didn't want the play or their little chicken lives to end. May we all face death like these chickens.

Why do two headless chickens make more sense at the end of their lives than a lot of us do everyday? I don't know. I don't care. I just want more chickens like these. Before they cross the final road. Funny as hell, absurd as f*ck, this is a 10 minute piece that I'd love to see onstage. Optimistic Nihilism indeed!

Deep, stunning, morbid, hilarious, philosophical, light, innovative, courageous - these are some of the adjectives that come to mind just after reading CHICKEN IS CONDEMNED TO BE FREE, a play that does so much it makes your head spin - and then come off in sympathy for the characters Astrid and Oren, a couple of beheaded fowl who spend their last moments with us. I think what I appreciate most of all is that Jesse Jae Hoon at mid-play gives us the Sartre quote that contains the play's germ idea and makes possible the delightful paradoxical conclusion. Magnificent inspiring work!

Wow! My new favorite ten minute play! Optimistic Nihilism and "I was gonna get ripped..." this is funny and dark and hugely silly - who wouldn't want to see this? Chickens running around without heads? Love Love Love this play! I wish I'd written it!

A short play with a unique concept that goes to some really deep places. I loved the existential themes these characters take on as they face something that we all have to face one day.

I can't resist a piece that takes on existentialism head on . . . or, um, head off in this case. In this short play, the writer gives us a perfect scenario for contemplating nihilism that's somehow both delightful and grim at the same time. The journey these two doomed chickens take in this short span is funny, meaningful, and, by the end, touching in ways I never expected. A truly marvelous absurdist work.