←Recommendations of The Judas Goat

  • Monica Cross: The Judas Goat by Emily McClain
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    Move over Animal Farm, Emily McClain is serving THE JUDAS GOAT. Based on an actual slaughter house practice, this play is chilling while still being disturbingly funny. I would love to see this play staged. If it could be in an outdoor performance space, all the better!

    Looking for a dark comedy for your 10-minute play festival? Put this at the top of your list!

    Move over Animal Farm, Emily McClain is serving THE JUDAS GOAT. Based on an actual slaughter house practice, this play is chilling while still being disturbingly funny. I would love to see this play staged. If it could be in an outdoor performance space, all the better!

    Looking for a dark comedy for your 10-minute play festival? Put this at the top of your list!

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  • Adam Richter: The Judas Goat by Emily McClain
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    Emotionally devastating and laugh-out-loud funny: That's how Emily McClain rolls with her satire, and "The Judas Goat" is no exception. A terrific exploration of why we allow terrible systems to persist as well as a potent warning about the dangers of nicotine addiction.
    Absolutely brilliant.

    Emotionally devastating and laugh-out-loud funny: That's how Emily McClain rolls with her satire, and "The Judas Goat" is no exception. A terrific exploration of why we allow terrible systems to persist as well as a potent warning about the dangers of nicotine addiction.
    Absolutely brilliant.

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  • Steven G. Martin: The Judas Goat by Emily McClain
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    Emily McClain has written a jarring play. From the opening image of a goat smoking a cigarette to the final twist where the tables have officially turned, the audience is going on a twisted, dark journey with implications about factory farming, being complicit in evil practices, and downfall caused by hubris. I love it.

    Emily McClain has written a jarring play. From the opening image of a goat smoking a cigarette to the final twist where the tables have officially turned, the audience is going on a twisted, dark journey with implications about factory farming, being complicit in evil practices, and downfall caused by hubris. I love it.

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  • Christopher Soucy: The Judas Goat by Emily McClain
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    Suck on it, Orwell! Emily McClain brought the big guns! So many wonderful allegorical paths to take with this short play. Whether relating personally, publicly, locally or nationally, this play is applicable to all. And somewhere in the recesses of the text is where we all stand, Judas, sheep, or ass - we’re all represented here.

    Suck on it, Orwell! Emily McClain brought the big guns! So many wonderful allegorical paths to take with this short play. Whether relating personally, publicly, locally or nationally, this play is applicable to all. And somewhere in the recesses of the text is where we all stand, Judas, sheep, or ass - we’re all represented here.

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  • Jillian Blevins: The Judas Goat by Emily McClain
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    I dare you not to laugh at Emily McClain’s vivid trio of characters: a chain-smoking, foul-mouthed goat; a ruthlessly ambitious donkey; and a sheep named Carla who’s, well, a sheep. This barnyard tale of office politics and banal evil is an uproariously funny twist on Animal Farm, and every bit as dark.

    I dare you not to laugh at Emily McClain’s vivid trio of characters: a chain-smoking, foul-mouthed goat; a ruthlessly ambitious donkey; and a sheep named Carla who’s, well, a sheep. This barnyard tale of office politics and banal evil is an uproariously funny twist on Animal Farm, and every bit as dark.

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