Barbecue Apocalypse
by Matt Lyle

Barbecue Apocalypse Book Cover
Barbecue Apocalypse Cover

Synopsis

"The vast reservoir of pop culture Lyle mines to create dialogue that is both realistic and stylized reveals a kind of Aspergery love of language that's hard to overpraise.

The play isn't laden with jokes so much as a way of saying things with hilarious understatement.

You may want to see it twice just to hear all the lines you missed the first time."

Arnold Wayne Jones, Dallas Voice "It could have been enough for Lyle to set the entire play at this awkward, weird, and painfully honest barbecue; he still would have ended up with an engaging lark that's sitcom-funny.

But then he decides to end the world."

Lyndsey Wilson, D Magazine "BARBECUE APOCALYPSE is a tasty nine-layer dip of comedy commentary about the slippery matters of marriage, adult friendships and career failure (real or perceived)."

Elaine Liner, Dallas Observer "A good comedy makes you laugh.

A really good one makes you think.

BARBECUE APOCALYPSE is a really good comedy."

Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News "A hilarious frenzy of existential angst."

Martha Heimberg, TheaterJones.com "BARBECUE APOCALYPSE suggests, in no uncertain terms, that these thoroughly average Americans were far more savage when they were sipping mango margaritas and failing to make small talk as compared to a year later when their new hobbies include devouring raccoons and threatening to stab electronic devices, among other acts defined as depraved by current standards of decorum."

Kevin Greene, Chicago Stage Standard

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 7 total roles, 3 female and 4 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
2016
ISBN 10
0881456853
ISBN 13
9780881456851
Print Length
84 pages
Language
English
Print
Barbecue Apocalypse is a British comedy / farce play written by and published by Broadway Play Publishing in 2016. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780881456851 and an ISBN-10 of 0881456853.

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