URI Theatre stages the novel-as-musical
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 4, 2007
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Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig has flown from one college campus to another since it was first produced in New York in late 2004. Now it has landed at the University of Rhode Island (through October 22) under the capable direction of Bryna Wortman.
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